Word: exactress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he is not touring his domain dispensing advice to athletes, farmers and lady cops, Mao lives with his fourth wife, exActress Lan Ping, and two teen-age daughters in the Imperial City's "Perpetuating Harmony House." No lover of regular office hours, he works either at home or, in good weather, in a tent set up in the park outside. Once a heavy smoker (50 or more British 555s a day), he now, on doctor's orders, confines himself to a pack a day, keeps fit by swimming in a luxurious pool in the Imperial City...
...minute than most people would in a lifetime." Along with the sensitivity goes a quick, clear intelligence, soundly educated and widely informed, especially in the arts. His overriding passion is his work, but he is also a devoted husband and father. He met his wife Merula, an exactress, when they both played in Noah (1935)-she was a tiger, he a wolf. Son Michael, 16, attends Beaumont College near London. Though he makes few friends, Alec is intensely loyal to those he has-Actors John Gielgud, Peter Bull, Michael Gough, Actresses Kay Walsh, Cathleen Nesbitt, Irene Worth, Director Peter Glenville...
...whistled replies between his fingers, blew smoke bubbles at Murrow and sadly plucked at his harp. But, in the lifelong tradition of "inviolable mutism." he was noisily silent. Tumbling over the furniture in his Palm Springs home, fright-wigged Harpo was as much a problem to chatty Mrs. Marx (exActress Susan Fleming...
...commonplace domestic predicament, NBC's Board Chairman Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver noted that the dress of his wife, exActress Elizabeth Inglis, was entirely unzipped in back, fumbled to rezip her, bungled the job. Tensely whispered Liz: "Why don't you put your arm around me?" Pat Weaver instantly did so. The main reason the incident proved embarrassing was that some 20 million TV fans were watching it on a rival network show, CBS's Person to Person...
...authors have written what they call a fairy tale-a good enough term for what it would be hard to call a play. In it, Miss Hull is an exactress who is also a tiny stockholder in a vast corporation. She attends a public stockholders' meeting, asks embarrassing questions and, as a way of being shushed, is hired by the company. Once installed, she engineers shake-ups and scandals, and at the end is head of the corporation...