Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Gwendolyn Cafritz, lithe, lynx-eyed wife of Washington Real Estate Millionaire Morris Cafritz (rhymes with "Say Fritz") stepped forward to take Perle Mesta's place. From her luxurious mansion on Foxhall Road, Mrs. Cafritz issued invitations to a mint julep and steak party this week at the Cafritz estate. The guest list, if all showed up, was almost as impressive as a Mesta fiesta. Among those invited: Vice President Barkley, the John Snyders, the Clark Cliffords, Generals Omar Bradley and Hoyt Vandenberg, a hatful of ambassadors and Cabinet members, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...families a week tagging along. The men got a chance to do a little brushing up on their weapons and marksmanship. Their wives and youngsters had a wonderful time at the swimming pool and among the rock-bottom prices of the post exchange. And, said one reservist's wife at Fort MacArthur: "It's a pleasure to be here and know that my husband is really out with a tank and not a blonde...
...Fundamental Incompatibility." Elected moderator of the International Council was Dr. Douglas Horton, whose wife, the former Mildred McAfee, commanding officer of the WAVES during the war, retires this week after 14 years as president of Wellesley. Headquarters of the worldwide group will be in London. There, council affairs will be administered by Britain's genial Dr. Sidney M. Berry, whose new job as secretary of the organization carries a salary of $4,000 a year...
...acre Yellow River Farm, 40 miles southeast of Atlanta. In 1945, when Constitution Editor Ralph McGill asked Cope to write a column, he accepted on one condition: "Let me mail it in." He still does most of his work on the front porch, where his 26-year-old third wife, Ruth, helps answer his 30 fan letters...
...result (at a cost of under $500,000) is not only a first-class social document, but also a profoundly moving film. Dr. Carter (Mel Ferrer) and his wife (Beatrice Pearson) are forced into passing as whites so that he can practice his profession. But he keeps clandestine contact with his Negro colleagues, names his son (Richard Hylton) after a famous Negro doctor. Out of these contacts emerge some fresh insight into Negro viewpoints, and into the intricate network of etiquette and anguish separating those who can "pass" from those who cannot...