Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players plumped for Textile Millionaire Marcel Boussac's triple entry of Djeddah, Coronation and Norval (Boussac horses had won the Prix five times...
...finishing licks on its "People's" Republic (TIME, Oct. 3). By unanimous vote, the hand-picked delegates chose Party Boss Mao Tse-tung as the Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang...
...will of Hollywood's late, Red-hating Director Sam (For Whom the Bell Tolls) Wood carried on the crusade. A clause in the will requires every beneficiary, except his widow, to file a non-Communist loyalty oath before collecting...
...follow a "double standard" in news. Says Race in the News: "Negroes . . . are almost always identified by race; whites . . . are not . . . Hardly ever does 'Mr.,' 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' precede the name of a Negro in the regular news columns . . . To refer to the widow of a lynched Negro as 'the Mallard woman' . . . is to deny her even the elemental dignity of grief . . . The Negro [in stories and pictures] is either presented as a menace, or he is ridiculed, patronized or applauded backhandedly...
...Tung, a peasant's on turned revolutionary, yesterday was named head of the new Chinese communist government which will bid soon for international recognition. The widow of Sum Yat-Sen was also named for a post...