Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Album. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Director Clark Tibbitts of the University of Michigan's Institute for Human Relations was sued for divorce by wife Helen, who complained that he made an entry in a little black book every time she burned the toast...
...minutes later, Governor Earl Warren, his wife and their three daughters drove up in two official cars. "Greetings, glad to see you," said Tom Dewey. The wives kissed each other on the cheek. Tom Jr. and twelve-year-old Johnny Dewey shook hands self-consciously with the Warren girls-Virginia, 19, Dorothy, 17, and Nina...
...last word came from one Franca Giustiniani, a Roman café society belle. "I am so happy," she cried when she heard that Dewey had been duly nominated. "He is a Republican and his wife is so good-looking. It will brighten the picture at official functions...
Dream Girl (Paramount) was a highly successful stage comedy that Elmer Rice wrote for his talented wife, Betty Field. It is about a working girl who runs an unsuccessful bookshop and has a crush on her brother-in-law. She escapes from these annoying realities in a series of glamorous daydreams-until love of a rude young book reviewer brings her back to earth...
...action, 1944) feels "so weary of controversy, of the opinionated, of fanaticism" that only one small ray of comfort remains in his heart-a memory of times when he exchanged smiles with people. In A Man and a Woman, Louis Guilloux described a quarrel between a businessman and his wife-a quarrel which is hair-raising precisely because it is caused by nothing but sheer boredom. In his two contributions, Jean-Paul Sartre, France's latest light-o'-letters, fills his fountain pen with embalming fluid and blandly describes 1) how reasonable it is these days...