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Angry divorcee to widows: You’re lucky
DEAR ABBY: Lately your column
has been filled with letters from
“poor widows” who are having a
hard time coping. I, for one, am tired
of these whining widows who don’t
know how lucky they are. They cry
that they are alone, but they don’t
know what “alone” really is. I would
rather have my husband dead than
know that he left me for a cocktail
waitress. That is alone!
Widows don’t have to live with the
pain of rejection. Widows don’t have
to lie in their beds alone at night,
knowing that their perfectly healthy
ex-husband is sleeping with another
woman. A widow gets sympathy and
invitations from old friends who knew
her when she had a husband- Divor
cees are avoided like they have lep
rosy.
A widow has a better chance of
remarrying because no man wants a
woman who has been publicly
dumped. (He also knows that a widow
has the whole pie financially
while a divorcee has just a piece of
the pie.)
Widows have no reason to cry about
being alone. I see ads for tours and
clubs for widows and widowers, but
Detective stories
satisfy an appetite
“CARSON’S CONSPIRACY” - Mi
chael Innes (Dodd, Mead, $13.95)
“THE QUALITY OF THE INFOR
MANT” Gerald Petievich (Arbor
House, $14,950
Michael Innlatest of the British
author’s elegant mysteries featuring
Sir John Appleby, such parvenus
seem inevitably to attract criminal
mischief.
Carl Carson, “a clever little city
chap,” would like to flee from both is
tottering business empire and his
embarrassing wife “The sort of
wife, whom, in more sensible times,
one had kept locked up in an attic.”
To this end, he devises an enterpris
ing if shady scheme to liquidate his
holdings and skip town, right under
the nose of Sir John, his country
neighbor.
Innes applies his stylish craft to
some amusing character studies of
the Carson household, and his intelli
gence to an ingenious plot with one
more twist than you would expect.
With a solution that wittily restores
order to a disordered society al
ways the ultimate goal of the classi
cal detective mystery lnnes proves
that he is still the dean of the genre.
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Charles Carr, the U.S. Treasury
agent-hero of Gerald Petievich’s su
perior crime novels, comes up
against the nastiest villain of his
career in “The qualify of the Infor
mant.”
Paulie the Printer is a master
craftsman at the fine art of coun
terfeiting, but his antisocial habit of
murdering all his paper-pushing ac
complices sends Carr on a hot chase
from California to Texas to Mexico,
guns blazing all the way.
This honey of an adventure starts
when Paulie coldbloodedly dis
patches one of Carr’s best infor
mants. Several other snitches get
theirs, too, before Paulie pulls of his
clever marketing scheme for dispos-
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I’ve never heard of a club for 60-year
old rejects; have you?
I know there’s no answer to this,
but I feel better just getting it out of
my system. Sign me...
SEATTLE DIVORCEE, OR I’D
RATHER BE A WIDOW
DEAR RATHER: I know you’re
hurting, but don’t measure every
divorce by your own yardstick. Not
all divorcees are “rejects”— some
divorcees have dumped their hus
bands.
And yes, I’ve heard of tour groups
and clubs for “singles” of all ages
without regard to why they are sin
gle.
A word of unsolicited advice: If you
don’t want to be alone forever, lighten
up and get rid of all that anger and
bitterness. Group therapy could help
you. Please give it a try, and good
luck.
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DEAR ABBY: While traveling in
Europe last summer, I met a girl
from New York, and we hit it off so
well that we traveled around together
for a week.
When she told me her age, I didn’t
want to scare her away by telling her
A review
ing of phony travelers checks. The
blood runs like ink.
Petievich’s action-filled plots, col
orful criminals and appealing tough
guy hero have always made his books
a pleasure. But what gives him a
stylistic leg up on the competition is
his absolute mastery of gritty genre
realism.
In this one, there’s a visit to a
morgue that is what you might call
truly memorable.
CHEWING GUM
Despite some of the television commer
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as a group like to promote gum
chewing. On the other hand, if you insist
on chewing gum, keep these facts in
mind.
Most brands are made with sugar for
taste, and that's a no-no for teeth. The
ones made without surgar, use chemical
products to achieve the sweet taste.
If you must chew, at least pick a
sugarless gum. The gum base can act as
a cleanser or detergent for the teeth,
even stimulating the gum tissues. It also
may stimulate the flow of mouth saliva,
an indispensible natural cleansing agent
for the entire mouth. Bui—and there is a
but—habitual chewing can overtax the
teeth and, occasionally, a gum chewer
can lose a filling or cause muscle spasm
from all this jaw activity. Gum can also
force food particles deeper into
crevices.
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mine, so I lied about my age to make
up the difference. (She’s five years
older than I am.)
She’s planning to visit me in Minne
sota soon. Even though it will be
embarrassing to tell her the truth
regardless of when I tell her, I won
der if I should tell her before she
comes to visit me. Or should I wait
until she gets here? I’d hate to lose
her.
- MINNESOTA SWEDE
DEAR SWEDE: Tell her before she
makes the trip. If you were suffi
ciently mature to have passed your
self off as five years older, I doubt
that you’ll lose her.
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DEAR ABBY: I’m a mechanic with
a problem I’ve never seen in your
column. Please help me before I go
nuts.
Have you ever worked with a whis
tler?
At 10 minutes to 8 in the morning, I
can hear the whistling as he is coming
into the shop. And he whistles for
eight hours continuously! No tune
just whistling. I don’t know whether
to cry, throw something at him, choke
him or what. One day he was out sick,
and I thought I had died and gone to
heaven!
I finally told the boss. He said if I
didn’t like it, I could quit. (The whis
tler is his brother-in-law.) I need this
job. What do you suggest?
- GOING NUTS IN DUNKIRK, N. Y.
DEAR GOING: 1) Complain to the
whistler not the boss. 2) Wear
earplugs. 3) Feed him crackers.
DEAR ABBY: Do I ever have a
bone to pick with you! Now you say
that dentists whose practice is lim
ited to school children should work
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from 3-9 p.m. and all day Saturday, so
kids won’t have to miss school for
dental appointments.
You sure have your nerve! Dentists
are people, too. They get married and
have kids of their own. When are they
supposed to see their own kids on
Sunday afternoons?
The dentist may be “doctor” to his
patients, but he is “daddy” to his
children.
DENTIST’S WIFE (MOTHER
OF FOUR)
DEAR WIFE: A person who
chooses a specialty should be pre
pared to practice during hours that
will accommodate his patients. And
by the way, mother, some dentists
are “doctor” to their patients, but
“mama” to their children.
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DEAR ABBY: Please set me
straight. If my credit cards are stolen
or lost, is it true that once I report the
loss or theft, I am not responsible for
the charges on my card?
I was also told that under federal
law, regardless of how much the thief
charges on my credit card, I cannot
be held responsible for more than SSO
per card.
Did I hear right or not?
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