Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed and barks out advice and orders to every point of his realm by long-distance telephone. He drives to work in a 1947 Cadillac. Although he is paid $25,000 a year, he lives modestly in the same five-room Ravenna District bungalow in which he and his wife started housekeeping...
Shopping was the prime lure. Import duties and local mark-up boost Cuban retail prices from 30% to 50% over U.S. levels. Many a canny Habanero found that he and his wife could buy a year's wardrobe in Miami and save enough to pay the airplane fare ($34.50 round trip) and vacation expenses. Havana merchants groused, but succeeded only in getting Miami stores to leave the prices out of their advertisements in Cuban newspapers...
Also down to Havana, but only for a visit, went beauteous Rita Hayworth. Her friend, the Aly Khan, happened to come along in the same plane from Mexico City, but Rita said it was only a coincidence (he is still married to wife No. 1; her divorce from husband No. 2, Orson Welles, has just become final). Rita's trip, she announced, was merely "to see the sights and rest." On its front page, the local Prensa Libre burbled: "She weighs 118 pounds, all curves and the most extraordinary sex appeal ever imagined. She and the Khan traveled...
...life, illustrating books like Treasure Island and the Boys' King Arthur, young Andrew became more & more fascinated with illustrating the little universe around him-at Chadds Ford, Pa., where he was born, and down east in Maine, where the family spent its summers. He lives now with his wife and two sons within a mile of his Pennsylvania birthplace...
...sure, burlesque; but burlesque, in some cases, of theater types for whom mere satire might be understatement. Yet its most successful moments stem from the actual small details of show business, and its most entertaining characters-the star's mother (Phyllis Povah) and the producer's wife (Audrey Christie)-are lowbrow rather than outrageous...