The White House—like most houses—has had its share of that most hair-raising problem of them all (war, revolutions and national defense notwithstanding): The In-Law Problem. Mary Todd Lincoln reportedly had several “kin whom Abe, despite his general kindliness, could not abide.” James Polk, an otherwise...
He fought bulls at 13, won a singing contest when he couldn’t sing, chased a dream until she married him. He gets what he goes after, that Ricardo Montalbán—and right now he’s after your heart!...
For her, they practically polished up the stars in Central Park; they practically wrote her name in lights across the New York sky. But the glow in Janie’s eyes was there before; it came with love . . ....
THEY DIDN’T WAVE FLAGS AT BIRMINGHAM WHEN THEY CARRIED THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS FROM THE TRAIN. AND VAN JOHNSON, WATCHING QUIETLY, SWALLOWED HARD, WONDERING HOW TO SAY, “WELCOME HOME.”...
THEY’RE BUILDING THEIR OWN FURNITURE NOW, AND BECAUSE THEY’RE THE LADDS, IT’S A 50-50 PROPOSITION. ALAN WIELDS THE TOOLS, AND SUSIE SAYS THE PRAYERS!...
Gradually, they’re getting used to it . . . the cars, the tennis, the $200 suits. But once the Contes—perilously broke and desperately in love—walked N. Y.’s pavements, and called it “having a date.”...
You think you have Bing in a corner, but it turns into a revolving door. You call up for an appointment, but he’s already got one. Yet when Hedda says, “Blue Eyes, an interview?” he grins, “I’m all ears.”...
“You don’t have to stick this out,” said the medics. “Go back to your career.” But Dick Greene wouldn’t have missed those years . . . missed finding Pat . . . for anything....