Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Character. The few non-Communist reporters who have met chain-smoking Liu, uneasily describe him as a "wan wraith in the shadows" who looks like an "underexposed snapshot." His family life is equally shadowy: his first wife "died" in 1945; his second is described as a "handsome" woman from Tientsin. One of his four sons was executed by the Kuomintang; a daughter went to school in Moscow and married a Spanish Communist. Sharp-tongued and humorless, Liu Shao-chi has flicked a raw spot on nearly everyone around him. When Premier Chou En-lai suggested in a speech that...
...knew his objectives were connected with a great revolution. After the revolution his sincere friends hoped that he might get married. His answer was that there were objectives that remained to be achieved. The Premier eats little, sleeps little and works hard though he is ill sometimes. Can any wife live under such circumstances...
...behind the girls is Kent's rector and headmaster, the Rev. John 0. Patterson, a 51-year-old, Nevada-born Episcopal priest who began as an M.I.T.-trained architect, spent 15 years in Midwest parishes before coming to Kent in 1949. No monastic-he has a wife and four children-Father Patterson has a hard-headed reason for backing the girls' annex. In today's world, says he, "men have to work effectively with women. Women are people as much...
...people at the expensive ringside table arched their eyebrows. Was this what they were paying for? It certainly was. The haphazard comedy of balding Clarinetist Phil Ford, 39, and his burbling, bouncy wife, Mimi Hines, 25, was the main attraction at the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week. Next, they are heading for Los Angeles' Coconut Grove, a stint on the BBC in London and a $3,500-a-week contract with the Tropicana in Las Vegas. Less than two years ago they were hitting the tank towns for $375 a week. Now they...
...jack of them felt they would never make a soldier because 'they weren't cut out for it.' " But Dene was cut out of it entirely; after two months of psychiatric and other treatment, he got a medical discharge and was sent home to his wife, Singer Edna Savage, 22. Edna had had her eye blackened by Terry before they were married, saw him arrested for drunken brawling three times in 18 months, vowed: "If the army loses Terry Dene, I'm afraid Terry Dene will lose...