Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reunion in Amarillo. To the White House went a plea from Widow Mary Phillips of Shawnee, Okla. Her twin sons, Bobby and Billy, 19, had enlisted together, had gone to Sheppard Field, Tex. for training together. Now for the first time in their lives, they had been separated. One had been transferred to Arizona, the other to Amarillo Field in Texas. Could they not please be reunited...
Turned over to Chicago's war scrap pile were three and, a quarter tons of armored limousine-the rolling fortress in which once rode Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. To Philadelphia's scrap collection Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, wealthy widow of the Morgan partner, gave a high-grade steel fence that ringed the Stotesbury Whitemarsh Hall estate. Height of the fence: eight feet. Length: nearly two miles. Content: enough steel for some 18,000 machine guns...
...pecks at a dozen aspects of the war without getting its teeth in any of them. Playwright Hurlbut started with a card index instead of an idea. Her little community on the New England coast had to find room for a teen-age war bride, a chin-up war widow, an airplane spotter, a girl confused by pacifist upbringing, a World War I veteran who re-enlists, an old maid who finds a Nazi uniform buried in the dunes, the Nazi spy who buried it. For fear all this might be too meager, Playwright Hurlbut threw in a Nazi...
...children and adults alike, The Tree of Life provides ample and absorbing proof of a fundamental religious fact: every religious group has asked itself much the same questions and come up with much the same answers. Where Jesus raised the widow's son from the dead, Buddha handled a similar case as follows...
...wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman, whose beautiful performance transfigures a vapid role). Once in Paris she thought she was a widow, and fell in love with Rick. But she left him as soon as she learned that Laszlo was alive. Rick is still trying to get over it. So is lisa...