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...best approach to a problem," says Muriel Agnelli, a matronly, grey-haired lady in her late 40s, "is lots of common sense, a little less cynicism and a little more faith. Where children are concerned, we need a little more discipline and a little less indulgence." Mrs. Agnelli had better be right. On that homey recipe she has become a No. 1 newspaper counselor, and mother confessor to millions of U.S. newspaper readers. Last week Bell Syndicate let out a well-kept secret: Mrs. Agnelli is the new "Dorothy Dix." She is also the wife of the syndicate...
...neither West Point nor combat had taught him how to cope with a civilian hazard like Dottie Peale. At 40, Dottie was a rich publisher's widow, beautifully preserved. She was out to land Mel Goodwin, and it wasn't likely that the general's wife Muriel, a short, dumpy woman, could do much to prevent...
...Women's Cards. In the end, dumpy Muriel Goodwin runs her hero husband just as she has run him since high-school days. And, up in Connecticut, Mrs. Skelton wins too: Sid decides to stick at his job to make his wife and daughter happy. In marriage, Novelist Marquand seems to be saying a little petulantly, the women hold all the cards...
...that he rose to be general manager of all Hearst magazines in 1930, helped keep the whole empire from foundering in its Depression crisis, stepped into the presidency of the Hearst Corp. in 1941 and bossed the empire's reorganization. Long a bachelor, he married Bronxville (N.Y.) Debutante Muriel ("Honey") Johnson in 1939, now has four children; Bridgid, 12; Richie, 11; Christina, 4; and Richard Emmett Jr., 4 mos. He is active in Roman Catholic lay circles (a Knight of Malta), an admirer and friend of Manhattan's Francis Cardinal Spellman. In the empire, subordinates both respect...
...Muriel Dale, a member of W. Henry Johnston's Athletic Association publicity staff, has left her position with the H. A. A. for a job with the Christian Science Monitor...