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of me using an eyelash clamp to curl my eyelashes. He shrieked in horror. Growing up with brothers he had never seen such a thing. The things women used to do to be beautiful – and the things men had to put up with for that beauty. It seems funny now but that is the way it was. A ROCKY START One night toward the end of our honeymoon Herman said he wasn’t feeling well, that he was very tired. I told him to take a shower, that it would make him feel better. When I heard the water running I decided to see how Herman looked in the shower. But when I opened the door he was washing in the sink with the shower running. When I asked him why, he said he didn’t want me to nag him so he turned the shower on. We both laughed about it. On the last day of our stay at Grossinger’s Herman again said he was tired and asked if it would be all right if we just went home and not continue on to New York. Herman was not well. As it turned out he had contracted hepatitis, prob- ably from an infected needle used for our blood
MINESTRONE? On stage was the comedian, Larry Storch, who later had a successful television series called “F Troop.” He did a routine about an Italian waiter trying to get everyone’s order right for a group that kept changing their minds; the routine included the shtik - “’atsa one no minestrone, ‘atsa two no minestrone.” Storch would keep writing down the orders, then crossing them out, it was hilarious. That night in bed every time I would doze off Herman would say, “Thatsa one no minestrone, thatsa two no minestrone.” We laughed ourselves meshuga all night. We were out of our heads, hysterical with laughter, far beyond the joke itself. We still laugh about it and the line – “atsa one no minestrone” can still set us off.
A BEAUTY SECRET
In those days curled eyelashes were a necessary part of a woman’s makeup. When Herman opened his eyes one morning during our honeymoon and caught sight
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