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While I did the housework, Christopher would compose poems, and the sun whould shine into the windows of our cheery little home all day. There would be a number of children with blond hair and pert, turned-up noes and English accents born to us, and the burden of Jewishness would be lifted from me because I was the mother of these angelic children...
Says a Washington, D.C., surgeon, an ex pert in bullet injuries: "A gunshot wound to the chest is always serious, especially in a 70-year-old. I am sure that Reagan's doctors were a lot more concerned at the time than they acknowledged...
...Holbrook was one of four Army officers recommended for a job as Vice President George Bush's aide-de camp. Was Holbrook the target of a long-shot plot to slip a Soviet "mole" into the White House? An attractive speculation, but doubtful. Says a State Department ex pert: "The KGB can be much slyer than this when it is really recruiting...
Burgess's pert narrator, 81-year-old Kenneth Toomey, is a bestselling novelist and celebrated homosexual, who relates the semen-drenched odyssey of his life--an odyssey which spans more than 60 years, four continents, two World Wars, numerous gay relationships, friendships with the likes of James Joyce and John Maynard Keynes, and the writing of countless novels, plays and screenplays. He had a Pope for an intimate friend and brother-in-law, a beautiful younger sister turned into a cyclops and a lesbian by a stint in a Manhattan art studio, and a grand-niece...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Doris Day, 56, pert, wholesome movie actress (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace) and singer; and Barry Comden, 45, restaurateur; after five years of marriage, her fourth, his second; in Los Angeles...