Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mallard was arrested by the G.B.I. on a charge of murder. Blandly, the arresting officer, Lieut. William E. McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical, the widow screamed again that men in white robes had killed her husband. Released without bond, she fled terror-stricken into the woods, shivered all night in a rainstorm, finally found sanctuary with Savannah friends...
...snack of cold turkey sandwiches with a friend on Queen Anne Hill, drove off toward home -and vanished completely. Last month, harbor patrolmen found them in Hennessy's automobile at the bottom of the Lake. Washington Ship Canal. One day last week, Gladys Hennessy, the undertaker's widow, was driving along an icy road with a woman friend and her five-year-old son Patrick (who was wearing a Saint Christopher medal taken from his father's body). The automobile skidded and plunged into the Wenatchee River. All inside were drowned...
...week's end, Harry Truman was seized with one of those humane impulses which exasperate bureaucrats but delight citizens. In a newspaper he read about the plight of Mrs. John S. Power, widow of a civilian economist employed by the Army in Berlin. Ten months after her husband's death in a plane crash in Paris, Mrs. Power had still not received his insurance. The President ordered the Veterans Administration to get hopping. The VA grumbled, but hopped. Then the President boarded the Williamsburg for a daylong, family cruise across the green gulf waters to the Dry Tortugas...
...such terms Agnes Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, had set up a fund in memory of her husband. Harvard was left a free hand under the grant to set up the program as it saw fit. What the University has accomplished in a decade is unique in both education and journalism...
Died. Elizabeth Root Luce, 77, widow of the late Dr. Henry Winters Luce, prominent missionary educator in China (1897-1926), and mother of Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; after a long illness; in Haverford...