Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts High School Teacher George Metalious, husband of No. 1 best-selling Novelist Grace (Peyton Place) Metalious, 32, father of her three children, told newshounds that he and Grace have split. He was mum on his reasons. though Grace had once explained that while she was grinding out her libido-loaded book George "cooked, fed the kids, ran the school and never once objected." Their impending divorce was perhaps based on the same grounds that inspired Grace to dedicate her novel obliquely: "To George-For All the Reasons He Knows So Well...
Muggs was recovering from a virus infection at his rambling ten-room house in Ramsey, N.J., and his lawyer, Jack Katz, kept mum. But Bud Mennella of the J. Fred Muggs Enterprises confirmed that the chimp's little eyes were fastened on an active future. "The NBC contract is re warding," he said, "but also constricting." Muggs has had so many offers, he added, that he hardly knows where to start raking in the big money. At NBC, where he started at $250 a week, Muggs now makes only $1,275 a week, pads it out with "sizable" income...
...Moines's Roosevelt High School another bright boy had a different problem. He did his work conscientiously, but he usually kept mum in class because he "didn't want to be the one who always knew the answer...
...affaire Jordan confused everybody, including the deposed coach, because anyone in a position to explain was, in the words of Boston journalists, "mum." Somehow the story first worked its way onto The Boston Herald's front page on the day after New Year's, and since Jordan seemed to be the only person who wasn't maternally "mum", some suspected that it was he who confessed...
...Idaho residency, Jeanne and the children of her eleven-year marriage, Heidi, 8, and Alfred Jr., 6, had taken some "out-of-season" skiing lessons and more than one pratfall. Snapped by a Chicago lensman as she headed back to her "home" in New York. Jeanne looked glum, kept mum. A little less reticent was one of her most dashing recent escorts, handsome Investment Scion Anthony Nutting, 36, separated from his wife (last June) and from his No. 2 spot in Britain's Foreign Office (last month) in protest against Anthony Eden's ill-starred Suez adventure. About...