Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigner he is dry, uninspiring. He does not make speeches, he lectures. His voice is as flat as a Midwest prairie. But he always says what he thinks, and means what he says (example: his two-word admonition to the U.S. people in 1947 to "Eat less"). His wife, Martha, is an ingratiating and razor-sharp platform performer...
...faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered. Said Hoffman imperturbably: "The first thing I would do would be to phone my wife in Pasadena. She usually tells me what to do." Then he fled...
...described himself, over the clattering of newsreel cameramen, as "a Republican and responsible-sometimes that takes you on the liberal side, sometimes on the other, but at all times you feel your responsibility." He said that he had indeed phoned his wife in Pasadena. "I came out of it reasonably well, but she doesn't think much of the idea...
...Republic, made speeches all over town. But each day he included a visit to the same small cottage on the edge of San José. Manuel Mora is a single man. "I was too poor to get married," he says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra, a writer of children's books, who sat in her book-lined front parlor and dished out the rocking-chair Communist advice that Mora has followed for years...
Comedian Danny Kaye and Writer Wife Sylvia, who started trying a trial separation last fall, stopped trying and rejoined each other. (She had kept on writing his comedy routines through...