Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mahler's widow, now living in Beverly Hills, Calif., published a biography of her husband (Gustav Mahler, Memories and Letters; Viking, $5). She first wrote her book seven years ago, published it in Amsterdam in 1940. Shortly afterwards she escaped to the U.S. with her third husband, Austrian Novelist Franz (Song of Bernadette) Werfelt† whom she met in 1917 when he was in the Czech army, married in 1918. Like many another Mahler partisan, Alma Mahler admitted that she wasn't always able to understand Mahler's music...
...love of flying.' The pilot who has [it] is recognized by fellow flyers as being somewhat apart. They speak of him as being 'plane-crazy.' Not infrequently such an individual makes sexual analogies-with flying. The wife ... of such a man is truly an 'aviation widow...
Against this seasoned politicking, Manuel Roxas was staking his reputation as a young, determined public servant (he was the prewar Secretary of Finance). Last week he got a big boost when Mrs. Aurora Quezon, widow of the late President, gave him her support...
Even at his trial Chen was in the shadow of a more colorful and sinister puppet. Wang Ching-wei's shrewd, fat, diabetic, bad-tempered widow, Chen Pi-chun, came before the court this week. Wang's closest political adviser, she henpecked her handsome husband and bullied her four grown children, three of whom have also been jailed. Chen Pi-chun was unrepentant, but she wrote her children that she was ready, even eager...
...Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME...