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...never been terribly hard to tell a society matron from a schoolgirl. One has a corsage of wet violets pinned to her lapel and the other smells faintly of peanut butter. But over the past few years both clubwomen and students, along with salesgirls, social workers, grandmothers and governesses, have adopted a common undergarment, and whatever the figure and however different the proportions, the total basic result is the same. Everyone is wearing stretch tights...
...Shape So Shapely. Today, no fad any more but an established part of winter life, stretch tights are everywhere: a book-loaded matron trudged up snowy Beacon Hill in Boston last week, a veritable bulk of muskrat coat and red tights; Los Angeles ladies strolled down Wilshire Boulevard topped in sunglasses and bottomed in tights; and across the country, suburbanites in colored tights wheeled through supermarkets with daughters swinging similarly bestockinged legs out of shopping carts. Because stretch tights have a way of making almost any shape look more shapely, because they are as warming as the hottest toddy...
...only other medical show is called The Nurses (CBS), none of whom should ever have been registered. The commanding figure is a charge nurse (Shirl Conway) who has the voice and manner of a rich Connecticut matron with old money and old blood. The opening episode took place in a maternity ward and was full of knowing chatter about centimeters of dilation and uterine cancer. Women writhed in pain. One died on the operating table. The dialogue was as phony as the obstetrics. Charge Nurse: "Do you want it straight. Miss Lucas?" Some other time...
Everyone a Vice President. "When I was a girl.'' says a Kansas City matron, "most of my friends' families had servants. Today I know of only one family with servants who live in. It isn't the pay. It's simply a matter of being unable to get a maid or a cook to live in at any price." Many families live in smaller homes than they can afford just so that they will be able to get along without domestic help, trusting to modern appliances to make the housewife's work easier...
Died. Elizabeth Ann ("Ma") Duncan. 58, the grey-haired California matron who in 1958 grew so jealous of the 30-year-old nurse married to her son Frank that she paid $335 to have the woman murdered; of asphyxiation (cyanide); in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison. Her 33-year-old son, an owl-eyed Santa Barbara lawyer, fought her case through a lurid trial during which she admitted that she had once been madam of a brothel and had married eleven times. "She was," said Frank, "the best mother a boy ever...