Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most famed contemporary Kansan, independent Republican, main street philosopher, author of 15 books (including biographies of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Coolidge); after long illness; in his native Emporia, where for 49 years he had edited the Gazette, making it the most quoted of all country newspapers. To his widow and son, William L. White, who succeeds him (TIME, Jan. 31), came a telegram from a frequent Gazette editorial target, Franklin Roosevelt: "He ennobled the profession of journalism . . . a real sense of personal loss . . . we had been the best of friends." The U.S. had lost the last of its great personal...
Until the P-63 is formally introduced to the U.S. public, the Army's newest fighter remains the P-61 (Black Widow), twin-engined Northrop night fighter. On Jan. 14 the Black Widow had the peculiar distinction of first seeing the light of publication in a comic strip, NEA Service's Wash Tubbs. Artist Leslie Turner had seen the plane for months, flitting around his home at Orlando...
...drew it in because: 1) he thought it would be announced before his strip appeared; 2) no other plane he knew of exactly fitted the needs of his continuity. Biggest fighter plane yet, the Black Widow is heavily armed, turns up speeds in the 400-m.p.h. class with two Pratt & Whitney engines, has a rear gun position...
...England recently some U.S. pilots, inordinately proud of their hot sweetheart, were enlarging on this theme while two B-26's planed in, landed and taxied back to the line. One airman gazed fondly at the sleek Widow-Maker. "Yep," he said, "it's a man's airplane...
...Book. Fannie's latest novel (Hallelujah; Harper; $2.50) is a rather abstruse triangle. Lily Browne, a widow, seemed "a startled-looking little girl, whose round hat with ribbons would be forever slipping backward on her head." Quiet, modest, gentle, nevertheless "in her underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality...