Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected Governor, view the Senator's troubles more in sorrow than in anger. Bill Robinson, a veteran Georgia political observer, says that they regard Betty as a vindictive woman and see the Senator as "an old man kicked out of his home, living in an apartment while his wife got the hogs, the land and the pecan trees. His only home is the Senate." The prevailing view is that Talmadge can be beaten only if the Senate votes to censure him outright-and even then it would be a close race...
...seats, outgoing Prime Minister Callaghan drove to Buckingham Palace last Friday to hand in his resignation to the Queen. Minutes after he left the palace precincts, Thatcher was on her way to "kiss hands" and receive the royal commission to form a government. Denis Thatcher accompanied his wife to the palace; like Prime Ministers' spouses before him, he remained downstairs to chat with the Queen's aides...
...Vitti's wronged husband, a flamboyant but sympathetic producer, Raf Vallone is so appealing that it is hard to know why Vitti would forsake him. Whether he is arguing on the phone about Burmese distribution rights or comforting his wife in a time of need, the serpentine Vallone is a grand old charmer. We want to see more of him, but once Affair shifts from satire to bathos he fades away. There are too many such missed opportunities. Like other visitors to Cannes, Michael Ritchie arrived with good intentions, only to get so distracted that he forgot...
...Arthur Fiedler, 84, was climbing the podium to commence his 50th season as leader of the Boston Pops. More, Fiedler scarcely five months earlier had undergone massive brain surgery. The years and fears showed mainly in the fit of his bib: Fiedler ill had lost so much weight that Wife Ellen insisted on smaller tails from Brooks Brothers. Otherwise, things Pops-wise were the same, including a familiar hand-clapping, balloon-rising Stars and Stripes Forever finale...
...also found time to teach medicine and pathology at the Cornell University medical college and to rejoin the faculty at Rockefeller University. Along the way, Thomas and his wife had three daughters. In spite of growing administrative burdens, he had published more than 200 technical articles on infectious diseases and related matters. The corner office, it turns out, was never Thomas' goal: "I made each change because it offered better opportunities for research, because I found the scientific opportunities irresistible...