Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goaded by protests from abroad and a telegram from Secretary of State Dulles, Alabama's Governor James E. Folsom called to his office Negro Yardman Jimmie Wilson, 55, condemned to die by an all-white jury for robbing a white widow of $1.95 (TIME, Sept. 1), commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment...
...Step. Last week the Arthur Murray empire was busily checking the steps in its sales techniques in the wake of a Denver lawsuit involving a grieving widow whose friends advised her to get out and take Arthur Murray lessons and find some companionship. In four whirlwind months in 1953, Mrs. Myrtle K. White paid $20,640 for lifetime memberships. When Mrs. White came to, her savings gone and dependent on her job in a bakery, she sued Budd Howard, operator of the Denver studio. The court ordered him to give back $15,890, the value of her unused lessons...
...another suit last week, Mrs. Gladys C. Foss of St. Louis, also a widow, charged that she went into the Arthur Murray studio there, intending to take only a few lessons, paid $5 down and soon was persuaded to pay $17,040 for lifetime memberships. But she balked at selling her house to buy more lessons, instead sued for $100,000, charging fraud...
...thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers got their money back without going to court: one involved a wealthy West Coast widow, a triple lifetimer, who tried to date her instructor after hours in nightclubs. "Naturally," said Murray, "we refused permission...
Died. Annie Reid Knox, 82, widow of Publisher (Chicago Daily News) and F.D.R.'s wartime Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox; in Coral Gables...