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...think Aunt Susan would have approved of today's Women's Lib leaders," said Susan B. Anthony, 55, in a New York Times interview. "She was a Quaker born and bred, a highly moral virgin, and she lived like an absolute nun. She would have deplored the sexual-freedom aspects of today's movement." Contemporary Susan B. was talking about her grandaunt, Women's Rights Crusader Susan B. Anthony, whose influence she describes in her newly published autobiography The Ghost in My Life (Chosen Books, $5.95). "I spent so many years of my life resenting...
...situation comedy has long been the most outlandish and outmoded of the television genres. No man is Gilligan's Island. Whatever network programming vice presidents think, there is a difference between a fantasy classic like Peter Pan and a Screen Gems gimmick show like The Flying Nun...
...most persistent rumor was that Evita's body had been shipped to Rome disguised as that of a nun and buried in a cemetery there. As it turned out, that story came closest to the truth. The Argentine ambassador to Spain announced two weeks ago that Eva Perón's body had been transferred from Italy and returned, as an act of "Christian dignity," to Juan Perón, now 75 and living in exile in Spain with his third wife. The transfer was reportedly part of a political accommodation between the Peronistas, who are still...
Britain's ghosts, reports Underwood's book, are nowhere busier than in London. The Bank of England, for example, has a resident ghost: the Black Nun. Several London theaters have ghosts, most notably the Theater Royal on Drury Lane, where the good-omened "man in gray" floats into view-but only during the opening nights of successful productions. Westminster Cathedral, which was long ghost-free, reported its first spook in 1966, but Kensington and St. James's palaces and Windsor Castle have much longer ghostly histories, and the bloody Tower of London has been plagued for centuries...
Alas, the flood of what Pope Paul calls "immodest fashion" was too much for Sister Fiorella. She disappeared from St. Peter's last week-a casualty, the Vatican announced, of "nervous depression." A novice nun has replaced...