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...fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many matrons can dance on the head of a pun? "More power to the peephole!" the Rev. Marshfield exults after describing a session of spying on his curate and his mistress of the moment...
...cancer; in Southampton, N.Y. Irish-born daughter of a retired British officer, Summersby, a former actress and model, was assigned to drive Eisenhower during an inspection tour of London in May 1942. Her constant association with the general throughout the war stirred rumors that she was his mistress. The speculation gained credence from Harry Truman's statement in Plain Speaking; he had seen a letter from Ike to General George Marshall saying he planned to divorce Mamie to marry Summersby. Summersby, who later married an American stockbroker, denied the alleged liaison throughout her life, saying, "I am admitting nothing...
High blood pressure is no respecter of age or sex; men and women are almost equally susceptible to the disorder. It strikes the powerful as well as the poor. King Charles II of England and his mistress Nell Gwynn both died from the complications of severe hypertension; so did such modern-day statesmen as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. Hypertension hits the young as well as the middleaged; doctors have found a surprising number of cases of high blood pressure among teen-agers and "swinging singles" and have even detected the disease in young children...
Died. Jane Ace, 74, who teamed with her husband, Comedy Writer Goodman Ace, in the popular radio comedy show of the '30s and '40s, Easy Aces, in which he played irritated straight man to her befuddled mistress of misspeak; in Manhattan. Among her inspired malapropisms: "Time wounds all heels" and "Doctor, feel my purse...
...with the uncontaminated candor of Ivy Compton-Burnett's oracular children. The close, conspiratorial relationship between Rose and Sarah, the rebel maid, was inspired by the two maids in Henry Green's novel Loving (belowstairs in a country house). Remembering how one of those maids found her mistress in bed with a lover, Jean says: "I always wanted to walk in on Lady Marjorie like that and scream: 'Ow, she's in bed with the wrong man!' " That line never got spoken. Instead, Jean based much of the cockney dialogue on her mother...