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...much and too long" by "professional requirements" during their eleven years of marriage, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor decided that a California divorce was the only way out. Feeling the same way, as of last week: Elizabeth Taylor, after seven months of marriage to Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr.; Betty Mutton and Ted Briskin, who had been trying again after several separations and a divorce...
Resting in Madrid, Barbara Mutton, disillusioned with her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, announced a change of heart about Europe, too: "There are still some fine people here, but I've learned that Americans have the real, decent, good qualities which count in life. You can have all the glittering front that is left in Europe today. I've had enough...
...themselves tremendously. Gary's distinction is that, almost alone among contemporary authors, he works in the tradition of Henry Fielding and the old English novel. With The Horse's Mouth, which completes a trilogy, more U.S readers are due to discover the unexpectedness of Gary's mutton pie in an age of literary thin...
Humanitarians & Bureaucrats. For more than half a century, under various parties, insular New Zealand, with its butter and mutton economy, has been an experimental laboratory for welfare statism. Today, social security-paid for by a flat 5% tax on all private and corporate income -includes state-paid old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, medical and hospital care. Industry is heavily regulated, trade unionism and industrial arbitration compulsory. Liberal and conservative governments have shared in the vast social experiments. But ever since the Labor Party took office in 1935, what had begun as a humanitarian drive gradually ossified into bureaucratic socialism...
Later there was a formal dinner for the clergy in the Community House, but Father Berard slipped away as soon as he could to join the big Navajo feast outdoors. While the Indians gulped boiled mutton, pinto beans and coffee, Yazzie moved from group to group, pinching chubby brown cheeks of babies in cradle boards, gossiping with oldsters about tribal affairs. Said one Navajo patriarch: "The Long Robes are all heart, but Long Robe Yazzie is a heart and a head...