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...Apollo space missions." The breastworks are delivered to one Connie Wicksteed, who looks so like a choirboy that the errant local curate has fallen in love with her. Connie lives in the genteel resort town of Hove with her brother Arthur, a G.P. specializing in lechery, his wife Muriel, a lady endowed with Jane Russell proportions, and a cleaning woman who is a victim of overexposure to modern communication: "I'm now going into the lotus position." By the time a salesman arrives to make sure the falsies fit, Connie has gone Girl Scouting, but several other stock characters...
...Thus every double-entendre is not merely dirty but wistful. The cast acts as if high on speed. Two are supreme. Donald Sinden turns Arthur into an irresistible hypocrite whose mind is so firmly fixed on sex that everything else is tiresome distraction, while Rachel Roberts' surrender of Muriel's well-bred façade to exigent desire fills the stage with the cheery sensuality of oldtime British music hall...
...Nixon urged her husband to burn the Watergate tapes. Muriel Humphrey, who heard secondhand that Hubert had decided to run for President in 1968, sent him a sarcastic telegram: "Let me know if I can be of help." And a woman overnight guest at the L.B.J. ranch was awakened in bed by a familiar drawl, "Move over−this is yore President...
Patient Wife. Reith enjoyed a moment of "jubilation" when Churchill was defeated in the 1945 general elections. But postwar gratifications, other than those that came from the understanding of his patient wife Muriel, were few. As Reith saw it, the vagaries of history as well as the stupidities of men seemed bent on frustrating him. Hoping that he would be appointed Viceroy of India so that he could demonstrate his ability to run something really big, Reith was crestfallen when in 1947 Lord Mountbatten was sent to manage Britain's evacuation of India: "So that...
...carved out careers for ourselves without help from Radcliffe," says Muriel Levin Laskin, who after six years went to medical school and now practices as a psychiatrist in New York, teaches on the faculty of two medical schools and has full-time practice. "Not having found a man I wanted to marry, I could pursue a career...