Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage, at 40, was Army: he met tall, blue-eyed Mrs. Mildred Lee Buckner, widow of an Army flight surgeon, at a Langley Field dinner dance. She loves Army life. Hodges taught her to shoot and hunt (she is among the country's top women skeet shots). Mrs. Hodges lives in Atlanta, wishes the General had time to write more often, tell a little more about himself when he does...
There had been little aerial help either. During the first few weeks of the uprising, the Russian Army twelve miles away did nothing to aid the Partisans, who were under the command of the Polish Government in Exile. Instead it disarmed Partisans. When Madame Helena Sikorska (widow of Poland's late great Premier and commander in chief) and 15 leading Poles protested, Prime Minister Winston Churchill fumed. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden lectured Premier Mikolajczyk. But R.A.F. flyers from Italy made a 1,750-mile round trip to drop a pathetic driblet of supplies to the besieged. Polish paratroops, idle...
...restatement of some of the ideas of Author Wylie's recent Generation of Vipers (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943), the framework is a ghost story. Ann Gracey, war widow agreed to rent her haunted house to John Galen, a biochemist, who had just learned that he was epileptic and in danger of madness. The developing love of these two, and the search for the "It" hidden in the house share interest with the author's views on religion, politics, art, and-above all-death. Provocative. General
...Oyster Bay Roosevelt came out for Franklin D. She was the widow of Teddy's son, Major Kermit Roosevelt (who died last year while on active duty in Alaska). Said she, offering her services to the Democratic National Committee: "I'll do anything, even lick envelopes...
Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand...