Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others insist that in his later life he copied his own pictures to make enough money for his charities to fellow painters (Corot once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a ten-year 1,000-franc annuity instead). But as Bachelor Corot grew older, his pictures grew more effeminate, his landscapes became more wishy-washy, more virginal. Famed Critic Julius Meier-Graefe once summed up what was wrong with Corot as a painter by remarking that he "lacked the grain of poison which is the preservative of greatness...
...cases houses them too (total cost: $1.75 a day; $1.50 for meals, 25? for rooms). Founded by railroad-camp Flunky William Lancelot ("Billy") Anderson 30 years ago (when he was the first Westerner to provide fresh sheets and milk to camp workers), it is now run by his chubby widow, grosses around $4,000,000 on meals alone...
...Widow Anderson, who was doing all right long before the war, now has contracts for feeding workers at naval air bases, U.S. Gypsum, Phelps Dodge's huge new Morenci mine, Climax Molybdenum, etc. She has even operated entire industrial towns (movies, pool halls, filling stations, etc.), last year ran two camps in the Bahamas for Paramount, is now setting up a new camp at Mecca, on the Salton Sea, for the same company's new film, So Proudly We Hail. One of her many headaches: when Anderson bakers are sent from California's Imperial Valley...
Married. Adah Wilson McCormick, 38, widow of Harold Fowler McCormick, harvester millionaire; and George Tait II, 30, aircraft engineer; in Phoenix. Longtime nurse of McCormick, who left her a fortune when he died at 69 a year ago, she was his third wife (first: Edith Rockefeller; second: Diva Ganna Walska...
Viennese operetta, the champagne of the Habsburgs, is doing its biggest U.S. business in years. In Manhattan during the past few months the lilting waltzes of Chocolate Soldier, The Merry Widow, Gypsy Baron, Beggar Student and Fledermaus have drawn throngs of moist-eyed listeners to Carnegie Hall and the Lewisohn Stadium. Produced in German by troupes of Viennese refugees, or in English by personable companies of youthful U.S. singers, Johann Strauss, Karl Millocker and Franz Lehar have played to packed houses for weeks at a time...