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Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
Journalist
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Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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Springtime
Filthy
April
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Spring
Makes
Look
Everything
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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
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The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
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As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
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