Word: waywardly
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...hard-running gubernatorial aspirant has spent only two nights there. Peppery Julie Nixon, 13, could understand, for she was doing some politicking herself-in the ninth-grade class at Marlborough School. Though she was home in bed on election day with a bump on her head from a wayward softball bat, Julie won. Her post? Vice president...
...days later, Liz was back in Rome, and back in the hospital-recuperating from a lovers' quarrel that included what looked mighty like a black eye. At that, blonde Sybil Burton turned up in town to see if she could bring her wayward Welshman to heel, had their four-year-old daughter Kate flown in for added persuasion. "I'm finished," wailed Liz, gobbling sedatives "for my nerves." Not quite. 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra still has the big suicide scene to shoot. The asp was waiting...
...unlucky Dow Finsterwald the match was over quickly: shaken by a wayward drive that injured a spectator on the second hole, he shot a sickly 77. At the end of the front nine, playing superbly, Player led Palmer by three strokes. Then Palmer's putter suddenly got the range-and Player's, just as abruptly, went wild. At the icth hole, Palmer snaked in a downhill 25-footer for a birdie and picked up two strokes when Player's five-footer hung improbably on the lip of the cup. "That was the turning point," admitted Gary later...
...money for being orphans?" asks the boy hopefully), the children go for a make believe bus ride. The conductor looks suspiciously like Papa, and a back-seat passenger like Mama. Delicately, Wilder suggests each child's need to love the thing he kills, especially parents. The wayward bus ride has its own hazards-jaywalkers, Indians, floods-and it gives Wilder a chance for a stalwart reflection on the business of living: "Fight. Struggle. Survive...
...immense assurance of the age proved the key to its immense achievement. Sir Charles Petrie provides no such brief, brilliant survey as does G. M. Young's Victorian England. But if The Victorians' outlines are fairly wayward, its details are often engaging. And parts of it go farther than usual afield-to Victorian Ireland and Scotland, for example. Prostrated by the terrible famine of the '40s, Ireland became so needy that even the highborn stole food at the Lord Lieutenant's parties, while the people seethed and periodically struck out. Ireland, too, suffered from the Queen...