Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Widow Kube returned to Germany...
...back home to Old Virginia, and from there was heading for Florida (not to see Winston Churchill-"That would be a busman's holiday"*). She was taking Lord Astor to a warm climate "to restore him." Explained the 66-year-old Viscountess: "Everybody wants to be a young widow-they go like hot cakes, but nobody wants to be an old widow...
...Mistress Mine is the comedy the Lunts played in London last season under the no less Shakespearean title of Love in Idleness (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). It tells of an attractive, broke widow who has been living in gay, sumptuous sin with a wartime British Cabinet Minister. Then her priggish, pinko 17-year-old son (well played by Dick Van Patten) comes home after five years at school in Canada. He forces his mother to choose between him and her lover and (possibly because a show must keep going until 11 o'clock) she chooses...
...took care of it by hurrying to the Gestapo, reporting his neighbor for Wehrmachtzersetzung-corruption of the Wehrmacht. Mueller's widow paid the execution bill: 474½ marks, including 175 for the gallows, twelve for the rope, eight pfennigs for notification of the verdict...
...brothers, dark-haired, studious Thomas Baker Slick Jr., 29, and sandy-haired, easygoing Earl Frates Slick, 25-Money & Ideas. The Slick brothers are sons of famed Tom Slick, "king of the wildcatters," and stepsons of Oilman Charles Urschel* (after Tom Slick died, his partner Urschel married his widow). The brothers were not content to live on $10,000 a year apiece left them by their father, nor wait till they inherited the bulk of the $25,000,000 Slick fortune...