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...quit the paper for good in 1953. She and Bill, by then a struggling high school social studies and American history teacher, had been married four years, and, she says, "I was sick of working. Putting on pantyhose every morning is not just whoopee time. My dream was to putter around the house, learn how to snap beans, put up curtains and bake bread." The young couple adopted Betsy, and Erma, who had learned domesticity as a child, returned to the home, an event that was to prove only slightly less momentous than Douglas MacArthur's return...
...companion for her husband. George Pierce Baker, creator of Harvard's legendary 47 Workshop where O'Neill, Behrman, Woffe. Barry and other dramatists students, and founder of the Yale Department of the Drama Mr. Baker (he loathed being called "doctor") had had a mild stroke and needed someone to putter in the garden with him and take him on occasional drives through the mountains from his country home in Silver Lake New Hampshire...
...from New York to Los Angeles-a city that Parker detests to this day-and the marriage had troubles almost from the start. "Shirley had this drive, this push," Parker recalls. "She didn't want to be surrounded by a white picket fence. I would be wanting to putter around in the kitchen, and she wanted to be at the studio." Says MacLaine: "Steve was very supportive, but he just didn't want to be known as Mr. MacLaine. From day one, he talked of going to Japan, where he had spent some time...
...third son himself and knew the difficulties of struggling along in the middle of the pack in a large family, paid special attention to David. He gave him more of his time. He often brought David to his Senate office on Saturdays and let the boy putter around while he worked or talked to reporters...
Herbie Hancock: Rockit (Kevin Godley and Lol Creme). An infectious synth-jazz riff keeps a group of unlikely robots-all unfinished-dancing as they putter...