Word: wife
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe, but few enjoy the adulation accorded Songstress Ella Fitzgerald. Making her annual European tour, Miss Ella was warmly welcomed by fans as she strolled down Rome's Via Veneto. She dined early at Giggi Fazi with Romano Mussolini (one of Benito's sons) and his wife Maria (Sophia Loren's sister), then put on a show at the Teatro Sistina that nearly brought the palazzo down. Dressed in a simple blouse and skirt, Ella warbled her standards: Mack the Knife, Mister Paganini, A Man And A Woman, then answered two tumultuous curtain calls with a rendition...
...Blood. The topical touches were more successful when Graham stuck to familiar areas. In his traditional appeal to young people, he tried to be even more sympathetic than usual. He confessed amiably to one audience that his wife Ruth-who teaches Sunday school to hippie-esque students near their Montreat, N.C., home-had tried unsuccessfully to get him to grow a beard. As an innovation, the crusade sponsored an auditorium-sized psychedelic "coffeehouse" in a building a block from the Garden. There, longhaired groups blared "spiritual" rock, minishifted girls sang on a platform, and listeners sipped soft drinks and talked...
Some might disagree. Delacorte's Alice in Wonderland statue, built as a tribute to his late wife in 1959, is so popular a children's roosting spot in Central Park that it requires some $10,000 per year for maintenance. The Delacorte Theater, completed with the aid of $150,000 from the philanthropist, is the site of New York's annual free Shakespeare festival. Another Delacorte gift, the Central Park Zoo's animated clock, is designed in the form of an animal carrousel. As its base revolves to glockenspiel music, the clock chimes...
Delacorte, a self-made millionaire, has six children and 20 grandchildren who are well-provided for, he says, in his wife's will; he himself believes that "leaving money to a child hurts more than it helps." The controversy over his fountain notwithstanding, he plans to continue his donations to the city he loves. "I was born and raised in New York," he says, "made my money in New York, and now I want to give my money back to New York...
...Absence makes the heart grow fonder," goes a classic one-liner, "of someone else." By necessity, the U.S. armed services often separate men from their wives for a year or more. Several recent psychiatric studies indicate that for most of the marriages, absence can make a wife's heart grow gloomy, resentful, alcoholic, hypochondriacal or even suicidal well before thoughts of adultery or divorce set in. Far from making "December June," as Tennyson once put it, reunion often leads to fights or sexual frigidity...