Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lady Beerbohm (Elisabeth Jung-mann), 61, widow, second wife and former secretary of British Caricaturist-Satirist-Drama Critic Sir Max Beerbohm, who married her in 1956, a month before he died at 83; of a heart ailment; in Zoagli, Italy...
...News, newly confident Marshall Field Jr. has succeeded in doing what his father, who established the Sun in 1941. was never able to do: set himself up to give the Tribune a real run for its money. As if in testament of this, Maryland McCormick, the colonel's widow, wired Field: "You have now succeeded the colonel as first publisher of Chicago...
Died. Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt Gerry, 85, widow of Rhode Island's longtime Democratic Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, onetime wife of George Washington Vanderbilt, direct descendant of Nieuw Amsterdam's Peter Stuyvesant; after long illness; in Providence...
Actually, the show's special appeal is neither sex nor standard whodunit suspense. The audience is rarely kept guessing about who scragged the rich widow or shot the human fly. All Peter Gunn's have to do is wince while their man absorbs his beatings. Usually they know did what to whom, and they can be that Pete will survive with his features unscrambled. While the mayhem builds up though, the show offers a fine sound track. Jazzman Henry Mancini, who boasts some 50 movie credits, composes scores for each show, leads leman band through a whining, insinuating...
Died. Ada E. Foote Wrigley, about 90, widow of William Wrigley Jr., who minted millions from chewing gum, owned baseball's Chicago Cubs; after eleven years in a coma; in Pasadena, Calif...