Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customers are just as pleased. Postman Frank Derrick ($4,000 a year) lived on Chicago's South Side, decided to move to suburban Park Terrace. Says his wife Geraldene: "We didn't have a down payment. But Frank was determined. He took out a $20 bill and handed it to the salesman and said, 'This is to show that I mean business.' We started to save for the down payment on the budget plan and finally got a G.I. mortgage." The Derricks now have a brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets...
...Fourth of July a group of U.S. airmen went on a drinking spree at Thingvellir, a pastoral spot sacred to all Icelanders as the first meeting place (in A.D. 930) of the Althing, the oldest continuous Parliament in the world. Last month a U.S. officer's wife was arrested on the suspicion of drunken driving. She phoned the airbase and almost immediately the Icelandic police were surrounded by U.S. troops and had to surrender...
Peronism. But military domination is not all that Argentine democracy must try to swallow. Peronism. the demagogic workers' movement started by Juan Peron, is almost as strong today as when the army booted the dictator four years ago. The Peronistas still burn candles to Peron's late wife, Eva, whom they call "St. Eva Immortal.'' They control 88 out of 138 trade unions and with their 2,000,000 votes can swing close elections (as they did in Frondizi's favor last year...
Maria Meneghini Callas, a famous diva. . .Soprano Giovanni Meneghini, her aging husband. . .Bass Elsa Maxwell, her trusted confidante Baritone Evangelia Callas, her estranged mother. . .Contralto Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy shipowner. . .Tenor Athina Onassis, his beautiful young wife. . .Mezzo...
...series of moving recitatives, Meneghini last week poured out the story: "The sea was choppy. I was ill. My wife was in one of her morose, taciturn moods, more of a tigress than ever. Onassis, on the other hand, was transformed. As the sea grew rougher, he became a real sea dog, giving orders right and left. One night my wife returned from a party at the Istanbul Hilton and said she loved another man. After an hour which seemed like an eternity, she admitted that the man was Aristotle Onassis...