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...Long Day's Journey Into Night" is now the property of the dramatist's widow, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, who lives in Boston. "She loves the reflected glory of being the wife of a recognized playwright," said Kozol...
...Some 500,000 German couples live together out of wedlock. The Germans call these liaisons "uncle marriages" because the older children are usually told that "uncle" has come to stay with mother. Biggest single reason for the uncle marriages: the woman (usually a war widow) can go on collecting her state pension so long as she is legally single; if she remarries, her pension is forfeited. ¶ West Germany celebrates a high percentage of shotgun weddings. "Above all," said one man in delicately explaining Wiirmeling's job, "he wants to root out conditions that made the seventh month...
...only your flock but also your shepherds . . . Their name is legion, and they come from all classes and walks of life. Offhand, I can think of a Philadelphia lawyer, a school carpenter, a dining-room steward, a housewife, a paper hanger, a commercial traveler, a middle-aged widow, a surgeon and a schoolteacher who are of their number...
...apple of McIver's parental eye is Stevie Holt, a melancholy young painter patient with one suicide attempt behind him. The curing of Stevie is also a pet project of a thirtyish war widow on McIver's staff who sees eye to eye with him on therapeutic methods. Together with the "patients' governing committee," McIver and the widow concoct a plan for Stevie to design new draperies for the sanitarium living room. Unknown to McIver, both Karen and the sanitarium's old biddy of a business manager have ordered separate sets of draperies on their...
...time the battle of the draperies is fought to a climax, Castle House is rocked to its foundations. Mclver climbs into bed with the widow, Karen does some lipstick-smudging with Devereaux, and Stevie nearly commits suicide all over again. At novel's end, Mclver is in full command of Castle House-but not much else...