Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Webster was in Memphis driving home from a Saturday at work when his wife told him he had received a call from the CDC. He called back, waited, called again, and this time got the news: "The virus is moving...
...timing of his journey, which took place just as a strange virus with great pandemic potential was emerging in Hong Kong. "I was very apprehensive," he says. "I was waiting for it to come--and it didn't." But another pandemic, he believes, is inevitable. He has given his wife instructions on what to do to survive it: retreat to their mountain cabin until the onslaught passes. It was a tactic, he knows, that was successfully used in 1918 by a village just 30 miles from Brevig. Its elders, after learning of the advancing plague, stationed armed guards...
Every day, it seems, a celebrity's something-or-other is on the block. A year ago, Albert Einstein's love/hate letters to his first wife Mileva Maric were sold at Christie's. A Christie's spokesman explained why he thought Einstein's relativity-theory manuscript went for more money than the letters. "I think Einstein will be known as a scientist," he said...
...artist John Bratby's love letters were put up by Sotheby's. Bratby, the Kitchen Sink school leader of the 1950s, had a hellzapoppin love affair with a much younger Diane Hills, to whom he wrote letters, as did Hills' father (less affectionately), as did Bratby's wife Jean Cooke (less affectionately still). "I understand from my husband," wrote Cooke, "the man with whom you fornicate on the floor of your flat..." All 25 boxes of the highly charged mess are now in some stranger's possession...
LAKE PLACID NEWS, FEB. 12, 1932 Governor's Wife Rides with Red Devil Pilot...