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...girl could thereupon be labeled as anything from a swinging chick to damaged goods. As for her date: well, the boy was just growing up. Most of the time, however, he remained stymied-by moral strictures, by lack of privacy and even by such fashionable devices as the merry widow, a maximum-security fence disguised as a bra and waist cincher...
...prosecutor inexorably pushed him toward a political career. Bluff, blond, big as a bear (6 ft. 1 in., over 200 lbs.), with a reassuring Scandinavian air of wholesomeness, he came across as the ideal public man. He had a family to match. In 1925 he married a widow of Swedish descent, Nina Palmquist Meyers, adopted her son and then sired five children of his own. An inveterate joiner (Masons, Elks, et al.) with a loose, easy "How are yuh, good to see yuh" handshaking style, he was a Republican whose personal constituency crossed party lines. In 1946 he won both...
There is something worse than a golf or football widow-and that is a boxer's wife. Honing the will to win, some trainers like to keep their stars sexually frustrated. Last week as a presumably fighting-mad Heavyweight Jerry Quarry, 29, weighed in at Madison Square Garden for his bout with former World Champion Joe Frazier, his wife Charlie weighed in with comments on their married life for NBC's Today show. "We have a two-week curfew," explained the blonde former Miss Indiana. "Gil Clancy, Jerry's manager, is in the room right next...
Gittis becomes involved with an amiable patrician (John Huston), a gentleman rancher whose face is creased with forced jollity, a stranger to scruple. His daughter (Faye Dunaway), the water commissioner's widow, is troubled and dangerous, and Gittis falls for her. But whether he is really drawn to her or only uses her to advance his investigation is never made clear. The widow's part is a plum, and Dunaway does well with it whenever she relaxes and stops pushing, stops acting. A lot of her scenes are meant to be played big, however, and for these Dunaway...
Married. Kenneth Barnard Keating, 74, white-maned U.S. Ambassador to Israel, who was dethroned as Senator from New York by Robert Kennedy in 1964; and Mary Pitcairn Davis, 53, widow of Wendell Davis, Manhattan attorney and Harvard Law School classmate of Keating's; he for the second time, she for the third; in Princeton, N.J. Henry Kissinger's recent Middle East marathon forced repeated postponements of the wedding by keeping the groom glued to his diplomatic post...