Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Clara Cook Kellogg, 80, widow of ex-Secretary of State, ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Frank Billings Kellogg; in St. Paul. A popular hostess in Washington and London, she was a tactful, patient woman whose grace often counteracted her husband's impulsive conversation. Kellogg once wrote that Coolidge said he had made him Ambassador as much because of Mrs. Kellogg as Kellogg himself...
Married. Julie Bradley Shipman, sixtyish, longtime fixture of Newport society; and John C. Fremont, 62, retired Navy captain, grandson of famed frontiersman General John C. ("The Pathfinder") Fremont; in Manhattan. Widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, she owns the palatial "Seaview Terrace," famed $1,000,000 Newport showplace (twice put on auction, once for taxes, twice withdrawn for lack of sizable bids...
...work very much. I'm just another fellow in the Navy now." Laura Mae Corrigan, 60, wealthy U.S. expatriate who became known as "the American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work for lack of funds. A Cleveland steelmaker's widow who had been one of London's most spectacular hostesses for more than two decades, she plunged into the job of helping feed, clothe, doctor, and amuse soldiers and war prisoners in France three years ago, sent aid to thousands of men in French prisons and camps, took to selling...
...Widow Bainter takes refuge in dignified solitude with the Clivedenish family doctor (Miles Mander) and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, but the boardinghouse brogue of her son-in-law's Irish mother (Sara Allgood), her daughter's expected baby, her son's citation for valor flank her personal Maginot Line. Before she can say OCD, she finds herself boss of the bandage brigade...
...hands in them. Fay Bainter succeeds against hopeless odds in making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note, of which the most vibrant tone is Mrs. Hadley's remark after reading President Roosevelt's letter about...