Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite maxims: "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'!" His dry, country humor and his ability to translate a complex business or political situation into plain horse sense made him a number of friends, but never found him a wife. When needled about his bachelorhood, Richardson explained his private theory about life: "Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman. They're all wantin' a landin' field, but mine's fogged...
...casts him as a theatrical producer, a sort of oaken image of Mike Todd. He has two phones in his car, spends an annual $785 in the barbershop and has an ex-wife (Lilli Palmer) who hovers about to protect her alimony, always remembering the anniversary of their divorce; she once gave him a hot-water bottle that snored. At 56, age is closing in. He wears a wrist alarm clock; when it goes off, it is time to take his pills...
...Gable comes to his senses and returns to his former wife, but she has been there all along: bright, funny, trim, feminine, mature, refined Lilli Palmer. If there is a man in the audience over twelve years of age who would not have preferred her from the start, he could only be the man who would be King...
...Royal Academy of Music and the fiancee of a pallid architecture student (Paul Massie), who has just won a scholarship for study in Italy. When autopsy shows that she was three months pregnant, the murder motive seems clear: the young architect's scholarship makes no provision for wife or baby; he and his ambitious family would not stop short of murder to see to it that they had a Wren rather than a turkey in the oven...
...arresting snapshot of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Eliot, in which the wrinkled old (71) poet stands with his arms looped fondly but awkwardly around the neck of his wholesome young (32) wife, his face caught in a quizzical expression, half doubt and half delight-a portrait of J. Alfred Prufrock, who has dared to eat a peach...