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Brady Bunch mom got crabs in affair with NY mayor (Florence Henderson memoirs)
Reuters ^ | June 25, 2011 | Dean Goodman

Posted on 06/25/2011 2:25:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Edited on 06/25/2011 2:29:45 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Florence Henderson, the actress who played perky mom Carol Brady in the beloved family sitcom, says she once got crabs after a one-night-stand with career politician John Lindsay, who was the mayor of New York City at the time.

Henderson, now 77, recounts in her upcoming memoir that she was cheating on her husband during the 1960s, and gave in to her better judgment when her married and unattractive friend put the moves on her over drinks at the Beverly Hills Hotel.


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KEYWORDS: crabs; florencehenderson; johnlindsay; oops
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To: nopardons
I agree. I remember him as nice looking.

She must have been drunk if she thought otherwise.

101 posted on 06/25/2011 6:56:01 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: muawiyah
Horsefeathers!

You just got caught in yet another one of your smarmy,ridiculous posts, attempting to be "clever".

You have NO idea what New York City accents ( nor much of anything else, for that matter ) are; now or through many generations of New York accents.

Post less, or not at all..............it'll save your being seen as a fool and a pompous one at that!

102 posted on 06/25/2011 7:02:34 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: lonestar

Drunk and/or she’s making the whole thing up out of whole cloth!


103 posted on 06/25/2011 7:03:57 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I never did think she was all that pretty, but then I saw a picture of her when she was 18. She was an absolute Babe! I also read that she really liked the boys even back then.

BTW, is crabs the same thing as lice?


104 posted on 06/25/2011 8:10:28 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: nopardons

From Wikipedia:

With the outbreak of World War II, John Lindsay completed his studies early and in 1943 joined the United States Navy as a gunnery officer.

He obtained the rank of lieutenant, earning five battle stars through action in the invasion of Sicily and a series of landings in the Pacific theater.
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John Lindsay met his future wife, Mary Anne Harrison, at the wedding of Nancy Bush (daughter of Connecticut’s Senator Prescott Bush and sister of future President George H.W. Bush), where he was an usher and Harrison a bridesmaid.

A resident of Greenwich, Connecticut and a graduate of Vassar College, Harrison was a distant relative of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.

They married in 1949.
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Medical bills from his Parkinson’s Disease, heart attacks and stroke, depleted Lindsay’s finances and he found himself without health insurance.

In 1996 Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed the former Mayor to two largely ceremonial posts to make him eligible for municipal health insurance coverage.

He and his wife Mary moved to a retirement community in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in November 1999, where he died the next year at the age of seventy-nine of complications from pneumonia and Parkinson’s disease.


105 posted on 06/25/2011 8:10:34 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

“In 1996 Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed the former Mayor to two largely ceremonial posts to make him eligible for municipal health insurance coverage.”

Yes, that was a bit of a thing. There was a story in the papers about Lindsay showing up at some public presentation and being rather disoriented, etc.

I’m glad Rudy did that, although I have to ask, wouldn’t he have been eligible for veterans benefits?


106 posted on 06/25/2011 8:26:41 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307
I’m glad Rudy did that, although I have to ask, wouldn’t he have been eligible for veterans benefits?

I would think so...

107 posted on 06/25/2011 8:34:00 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: bigheadfred

No. Trust me on this.


108 posted on 06/25/2011 8:34:15 PM PDT by Ax
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

“They” really say that???


109 posted on 06/25/2011 8:43:55 PM PDT by big truck
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To: ngat

Wow, you really read too much into things. A picture is a picture. You are projecting. People like to see what these folks like contemporaneously. I know I have never seen Lindsey before. The earliest NY mayor I remember is Abe Beam.


110 posted on 06/25/2011 8:44:18 PM PDT by WaterBoard
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To: Allegra

She don’t just cook with that oil...


111 posted on 06/25/2011 8:44:58 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So that’s why Tiger liked to be fed by Alice.


112 posted on 06/25/2011 8:49:43 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: nopardons

Lindsay at the time was considered one of the sexiest male pols around. He was a nitwit liberal, but that never stopped people from voting for him.


113 posted on 06/25/2011 10:36:55 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: yarddog

Pretty much. They’re actually called crab lice.


114 posted on 06/26/2011 3:22:15 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (July 23, 2017 - This is Ellis Wyatt. I am on strike.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

eeeeeeyyyyyoooooooooweeeeeeeeeeeeeee! We didn’t need to know that!


115 posted on 06/26/2011 3:31:15 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Applied Christianity;a study in spiritual fiber optics connecting God's love to man!)
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To: nopardons

Yes, if the word ‘attractive’ is used, it helps explain why she acted against ‘her better judgment’, the use of the word ‘unattractive’ makes her going against ‘her better judgment’ simply odd.


116 posted on 06/26/2011 4:38:12 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: Oztrich Boy
And I thought it was Roger Moore in Live and Let Die.

Cheers!

117 posted on 06/26/2011 4:42:59 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: muawiyah
That's odd -- given Florence's behaviour I expected you to mention Al Goldstein's magazine [censored] (but the name resembles a common metallic fastener which is removed with a screwdriver).

Cheers!

118 posted on 06/26/2011 4:45:42 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Post of the DAY!


119 posted on 06/26/2011 4:46:48 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yeah, but the important question is...

Is Flo on Anthony Weiner's Tweet list?

Cheers!

120 posted on 06/26/2011 4:48:39 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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