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This assignment also provided diversion for some of TIME'S own snappin' women in New York: Gina Mallet, who wrote the story, Martha Duffy, who edited it, and Amanda MacIntosh, who researched it. At one point the three joined Ms. Hemingway in a Manhattan restaurant; they were halfway through lunch (cold lobster, white wine) before they could really understand her lickety-split, California-hip patois, but the interview turned out "okeydoke artichoke," as Margaux would say. Mallet also talked with Model Beverly Johnson and interviewed Millionette Nicky Lane in her Visconti-decadent drawing room on Manhattan...
Your drama critic says that Glenda Jackson [May 5] has reduced Hedda Gabler's "Dionysian will to freedom" to a case of "suburban jitters." Is that a "travesty" or an updating? Hedda was trivialized before Ms. Jackson took her up. The "unfulfilled woman" has become a cliché, and that is indeed a tragedy...
Divorced. Phyllis Diller, 58, rubber-faced doyenne of domestic comedy; from her husband of ten years, Actor-Singer Warde Donovan, 59; in Los Angeles. Ms. Diller's courthouse exit line: "We have a great settlement. I got the house and I gave him the gate." - ∙ Died. Marguerite Perey, 65, pioneering research chemist; of cancer; in Paris. At 20, Perey began working as a laboratory assistant to Marie Curie at the French Radium Institute. In 1939 she isolated francium, the 87th element in the periodic table. Cancer, probably caused by her work with radioactive elements, had already afflicted...
...seven children; and Mary Lou Briatta, 28, daughter of Louis Briatta, an ex-barber once linked to gambling in the Loop. The romance bloomed last winter amid the bumper stickers of campaign headquarters, where young John, a prospering insurance broker, helped with hizzoner's re-election drive and Ms. Briatta served as a volunteer...
...think it is an accident that we are both married, with kids," says Robert, who wed at 20. Both brothers share the household duties. Ann Meeropol teaches English to immigrants; Elli has written a yet-to-be-published article about Ethel Rosenberg for Ms. magazine, making the ironic observation that prison liberated her from housework and allowed her to write...