Word: wyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot is Simon simple; yet it has all the engaging velocity of a Feydeau farce. Two short and jolly people, Eddie Kettle (Charles Repole) and Elsie Darling (Virginia Seidel), have just got married to two very tall and stuffy people, Georgina Kettle (Spring Fairbank) and Percy Darling (Nicholas Wyman). Precipitately, the foursome is separated as the two short people sail on a Hudson River excursion liner, and the tall people miss the boat. The couples reunite at the upriver Honeymoon Inn, where the explanations get hot, long and sticky, tempers get short, and the fun gets frantic. Among the funsters...
This absorption in politics was one reason for the breakup of his eight-year marriage to Jane Wyman. As the story goes, she was so turned off by his pedantic political analyses at the breakfast table that she walked out in 1948 with their two children, Maureen, now 34, and Michael, 30. Four years later he married a former starlet who shared his political convictions: Nancy Davis, daughter of a wealthy Chicago neurosurgeon. They have two children, Patricia, 22, an aspiring singer, and Ronald Prescott, 17, a student at a private boys' school...
...Durkin racked up 54% of the unexpectedly large vote, against 43% for Wyman and an insignificant 3% for an American Independent Party candidate. Organizationally, Durkin did so with an efficient, labor-supported, get-out-the-vote drive. On the issues, he tied Wyman to past and current Republican Party policies in Washington, a strategy that was actually aided by President Ford's campaign swing in New Hampshire on behalf of Wyman. Durkin hammered away at the high cost of heating oil, gasoline and electricity, and forecast more increases under Ford's policy of decontrolling domestic oil. That tack...
Watergate, too, figured in the election; Wyman is under investigation by the Special Prosecutor's office for helping arrange a $300,000 contribution to Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. The donor: Ruth Farkas, member of a wealthy New York department store family, who became Ambassador to Luxembourg after giving the money. Wyman conceded that he had been questioned by a Watergate grand jury about the Farkas affair, but refused to discuss the matter during the campaign. Wyman apparently remains in some danger of indictment, a possibility that President Ford boldly decided to ignore in choosing to campaign...
...Wyman readily accepted the challenge of allying himself with Ford policies. He echoed a repeated Ford complaint about the evils of relying too much on Washington. "I want the Federal Government to keep its cotton-pickin' hands out of our business unless there's something we absolutely can't handle," Wyman declared. The pitch did not work. Wyman failed to carry nine of the 14 towns in which Ford campaigned for him. Nor did he win in Manchester, where California's Conservative Ronald Reagan stumped...