Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five such fine boys sitting on the dais at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, recipients of medals from the National Institute of Social Sciences "for their signal service" in all fields. There was Philanthropist John D. Ill, 61, who said that he was "the only one who was unemployed"; Nelson, 59, Governor of New York; Laurence, 57, who heads the brothers' charitable foundation; Winthrop, 55, Governor of Arkansas, and David, 52, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. It was their first public get-together since 1960, and John D. Ill was prompted to question the wisdom of his longtime...
Money is the monkey on Hero Barry Nelson's back. He plays a middle-aged research chemist who talks in the tone of small boy pique: "Forty-three years old-and I haven't even got a power mower." In nagging antiphony he and his pouter-pigeon wife, Barbara Bel Geddes, sing the have-not-got-enough blues of a deceptively affluent suburbia...
...Capers. Then a fairy gold-mother appears, a working madam (Beatrice Straight) willing to aid a matron in distress with a part-time afternoon job as a $100-an-hour call girl. Barbara is appalled-but not for long. When a packet of almost $5,000 arrives addressed to Nelson, it is clear to the audience, if not to him, that his wife is making good in the oldest business...
...Soon, Nelson is shocked to learn the truth about the mystery money. Yet by Act II, he and Barbara are using it to throw a party for neighbors whose style of living they ape and envy. When the madam suddenly appears at the party to announce that the police are on to her, it becomes clear that all of the wives have been cutting capers in her beds. And their husbands are in the know. With baleful urbanity, the men band together and make plans to protect their tax-free sincome...
...neighboring Iowa has even more of it, thanks to heavier rainfall. The marijuana that grows in Nebraska, mostly along roadsides, creeks, hedgerows and railroad tracks, is virtually worthless as a narcotic. "Smoking it would be about like smoking corn silk," said Lancaster County Extension Agent Emery Nelson...