Word: mccall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago, Joan confessed her alcoholism in McCall's, but the ordeal dissolved her abstinence. A few days after publication, overwhelmed by embarrassment, Joan relapsed badly. Since then, friends say she has tentatively conquered the bottle. She has been seeing a psychotherapist, and attends meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. She has checked herself on occasion into McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., to the unit for former alcoholics who "feel teetery." Her husband will only say cautiously, "I think she's making great progress...
Outlines of what went wrong have been sketched before, most notably by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in A Thousand Days. But Wyden, a former editor at the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's and Ladies' Home Journal, is not satisfied with shadows and rumors. He retraces every false step, sparing no one and no institution. The plot was conceived and crafted at the CIA largely by a cerebral chief of covert operations, Richard Bissell Jr. It had been passed on to President Kennedy by an unenthusiastic-but not disapproving-President Eisenhower. In the naive belief that U.S. involvement could...
Another prominent palimony target won a clear-cut victory last week. British Rock Star Peter Frampton, 28, had been sued by his onetime girlfriend Penny McCall, 30, for 50% of his earnings between 1973 and 1978, a half-interest in a 53-acre estate in Westchester County, N.Y., and a portion of his future income. But New York State Supreme Court Judge Joseph F. Gagliardi noted that the litigant had neglected to get divorced before moving in with Frampton. He threw the case out. Not to do so, he said, would be to condone adultery, still a crime...
...director Kevin McCall: "Hey, isn't that a university sheet...
...place with Manhattan's prestigious Ford Model Agency. She began going around with a celebrated race-track figure named Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson. He set her up as the head of her own modeling agency, named My Fair Lady. Her picture began appearing in the pages of Vogue and McCall's, even on the cover of Redbook, and soon she was earning more than $100,000 a year. "She was nice, considering the money she made, never stuck up," recalls one of the models who worked...