Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civil War President. Mary Todd Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...
...HELEN'S TOWER - Harold Nicolson- Harcourt, Brace...
Last week Author Nicolson published his uncle's biography, Helen's Tower. He now recognizes a number of contradictions in his uncle's career; his Liberalism and his love of property, his pity for the Irish peasantry and his opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love...
...HELEN W. EDWARDS
Dance of Death-Helen McCloy-Morrow ($2). The story of a body, uncannily resembling a celebrated debutante, found in a snowdrift, solved by a psychiatrist whose medical and psychological analyses make more sense than scientific details usually do in detective fiction...