Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes, when entertaining at home with his art-collecting wife, Marie Whitney Harriman, ECA's European chief finds his guests distracted from weighty conversation. His salon is hung with a pink Renoir, a blue Picasso, a Van Gogh bowl of yellow tulips, and a Gauguin. Said one of his dinner guests, later: "God, how could I concentrate on what he was saying, with those around...
...aided by twice-a-day phone talks with his wife, Sterling broke eggs, separated the whites and whipped them up. Then he measured the physical properties of his meringues. After using dozens of eggs, he switched to other materials, finally hit on a phenolic resin as the best. This week, Westinghouse claimed that Sterling's "meringue," made by heating the resin with a catalyst to 350° F., was the world's lightest solid. At any rate, it was ten to 20 times lighter than the fluffiest pie topping...
...twelve years, sometimes collaborating with his writer wife, Verna Arvey ("she takes over where I fail to function"), he has toiled away on the composition of seven operas. A slight, sloe-eyed man whose hobby is turning out toys for his two children, he even fashioned miniature sets for his operas in his Los Angeles home. Some of the operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn...
...burly Robert Weede to sing the lead role of Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian slave who made himself (in 1804) an emperor, then a tyrant, only to be duped by his mistress and shot in the back. With Marie (The Medium) Powers as the rejected wife who came back faithfully to bury her husband, and George Balanchine to tune up a satirical little minuet, Troubled Island should have had no trouble...
...A.A.F. lieutenant colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...