Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Production of Curtiss' P-40 Warhawk, a version of the old P-40 with which the U.S. started the war, will be cut back, terminated by year's end. The P-61 Black Widow will keep its job as a night fighter. Bell's P-63 Kingcobra, which has a 37-mm. cannon among its armament, will be made principally for shipment to Russia...
Bald, icy-eyed Columnist Strunsky is the kind of newspaperman about whom no hit play or best-selling novel is likely to be written. He has never picked a lovenest lock, swiped a picture from a new widow, or solved a murder. Born in Russia and schooled in New York City from P.S. 77 through Columbia, he went to work as an editor of the New International Encyclopedia in 1900, aged 21. After six years he shifted to editorial writing for the New York Post, became its editor in 1920, moved on to the Times...
...yearly fellowships are bestowed on working newspapermen under the terms of the will of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the late publisher of the Milwaukee Journal. The only newspaper men eligible this year were those unavailable for military service, whose intention for study is to equip themselves to deal with post-war problems...
...divorcee, one a widow, the rest spinsters. They call themselves the "Nine Old Women," although their ages range from a mere 30 to a mere 44. Their backgrounds vary from directing physical education to counseling at law. Their uniform sizes vary from a trim 16 to a firm 40. The Nine...
...found themselves locked out. Ankara's swank Karpic Restaurant was the scene of an embarrassing incident. Just as slick German Ambassador (and Spy-Master) Franz von Papen entered, the orchestra was beating out Pistol Packin-Mama. With truly Turkish tact, it slid with few fumbles into the Merry Widow Waltz...