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...decide whether it was fair to her family for her to pursue politics. She concluded it was-"if I would leave my problems at work and not take them home." Not long ago Leone Ackerly, 31, a bored middle-class housewife, decided to hire herself out as a maid. Her mother went into shock. Now Ackerly runs a string of six cleaning services. "My mother just thinks I'm the smartest thing since the mousetrap...
...some instrumentation of his own devising. Singing the part of Susan B. Anthony is Mignon Dunn, who claims she knows every mezzo and contralto role in Wagner's Ring cycle. Her voice sounded opulent, and in her rich scarlet uniform, she occasionally looked more like a warrior maid than a Quaker suffragist...
...roof of the dirt-floor shack he rents on the edge of a gravel pit in the hills above Mexico City. Sometimes he gets a day's work in the gravel pit for $6.40, but it is not regular work. His wife, Manuela, earns $45 a month as a maid. Their six-month-old son lies sleeping on the family...
When last seen as the starched, love-parched maid in Upstairs, Downstairs, British Actress Jean Marsh was helping the Allies win World War I by serving tea at the Bellamys and moonlighting as a bus conductor. But lately she has been embroiled in World War II, filming The Eagle Has Landed, in which she plays a British WAC gone awry aiding Michael Caine, a German colonel, in a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. How could the prim Rose of Upstairs switch from kitchenling to quisling? Easy, she says: "I'd do it to anyone for the money...
...death her two-year-old half sister in the family's rundown frame house. The two teen-agers quickly went from killing to killing, all without motive. The victims: a 70-year-old bachelor farmer, a teen-age couple, a well-to-do industrialist, his wife and his maid, and a traveling salesman. The epidemic of shootings turned Lincoln into a horrified city under siege. People were afraid to go to work or even take out the garbage. Some townsmen were armed and deputized to patrol the streets. Eventually authorities nabbed the two desperadoes in Wyoming...