Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorensen the other. Edsel Ford gave his tacit support to Sorensen, counteracting the tremendous influence Bennett has with Henry Ford. The scales are now tipped far the other way. This Tuesday Bennett was made a director (Sorensen was one already) at the same time that Edsel's widow and three other executives were added to the board. But Henry Ford took the presidency for himself...
Nioman Fellowships, usually about twelve a year, have been offered during the past five years at Harvard under the bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman. Publisher of the Milwaukee Journal given "to etc. vate and promote the standards of your nalism in America" Harvard has applied the Nieman funds to the support of annual Fellowships to working newspaper men for a year's study on leave from their papers. A fellowship pays the salary of the man during his leave form his. Until now the Fellowships have permitted work in any department...
Died. Mrs. William Howard Taft, 82, widow of the late President and Chief Justice; in Washington. As a young girl guest at the White House, Helen ("fascinating Nellie") Herron set her mind on a husband of Presidential size. She married good-natured, well-proportioned "Will" Taft when she was 25, carefully shepherded him past all the side trails (including a pre-Presidential Supreme Court offer). She was an imperious, efficient reorganizer of White Housekeeping...
...characterization of an actor in the red and a painter in the pink is over-boyish and too awkward. Vicki Cummings, as "Penny" not only wears exciting clothes well (her first appearance in a shimmering strapless almost brought down the first balcony) but carries off her gay grass-widow's role with a deft touch of cosmopolitan hauteur. Ellanora Reeves is attractively convincing, and shares honors with Miss Cummings for excellent feminine support. As apartment-landlord, Rolfe Sedan's distraught flutterings are superb...
...nine years the Golden Rule Foundation, whose funds go to "mothers . . . orphans . . . innocent victims of war" and whose donation blanks are headed "In Honor of My Mother," has winnowed an assortment of honorary Mothers (TIME, May 3). Last week its aplomb was jiggled by Mrs. Henry P. Davison, 72, widow of a Morgan partner, and mother of Colonel (former Assistant Secretary of War) Trubee and of World War II naval officer Harry P. She refused to become New York State Mother...