Word: mother-in-law
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Falk's hearing will continue this morning at 9:30 a.m. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr., will also hear arguments on a motion filed by Idella Marx. Ellsberg's mother-in-law, who is seeking release from her subpoena...
...lawyer not actually in jail. The candidate has been chosen by the Eastern establishment-that is, the Justice Department, the Mafia, Wall Street and the elders of the Church of Christ, Computer. The trouble is that Mulligan's youth image is endangered because his 68-year-old mother-in-law is having an affair with a 70-year-old man. Their attraction must be cooled, because to the young American voter, any suggestion of sex past the age of 30 is obscene...
...image of pernicious momism; of cancer; in Hollywood. "Why should I object to playing mothers all the time on the screen?'' Miss Byington once asked. "Mothers scheme and plan and love with all the versatility of a three-ring circus." Though her maternal roles included Marmee in the 1933 screen classic Little Women and Mickey Rooney's all-knowing mom in the first Andy Hardy film, she reached the zenith of her career in the mid-1950s as the fluttery mother-in-law with the heart of gold on the TV comedy series December Bride...
Died. Henry D. Haynes, 51, better known as Homer, the guitar-strumming, tobacco-chewing half of Homer and Jethro; of a heart attack; in Lansing, Ill. "Our first records were received with mixed emotions, like watching your mother-in-law drive your new Cadillac over a cliff," quipped Henry Haynes and Kenneth ("Jethro") Burns, the two Tennessee hillbillies who became a permanent team in 1936. Their deadpan delivery of such ditties as How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? soon caught on, and the drawling duo sold millions of records...
...voice of Henny Youngman, a comedian of Jessel vintage who has taped 230 of his best-worn jokes for the machine's benefit. The vaudevender, once fed with 100, spews out the desired sweet along with one of Kenny's alltime greats. Sample: "Hey! My mother-in-law tried a mudpack treatment on her face, and for two days she looked great. Then the mud fell...