Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PATH FASHION HOUSE of Paris, which carried on under Widow Genevieve Fath after Jacques Fath died in 1954, is going out of dress business. Once ranked with Dior in sensational creations, House of Fath will sell only such accessories as hosiery, gloves, perfumes...
...screen by Director Delbert Mann, who made Marty. The scenes in the subway and the office are first-rate epigrams of locale. The reluctant groom C Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow"). The hardened bachelor (Jack Warden), young but not so young as he used to be, is also pathetic. "Home?" he laughs. "What do I wanna go home fuh? I awready read alia papuhs." But nobody is fooled. And this is what Paddy Chayefsky truly understands and poignantly expresses: that loneliness...
...gave him meat and bones to support his vigil. Villagers greeted him with cheering words. Sometimes, on chilly nights, the bus company even permitted Fido to do his waiting inside, instead of under the bus. And each year, though hard pressed to support her own household, Carlo's widow raised the money for Fido's dog license...
...member of one of Virginia's grand old families, an able journalist (on and off from 1931 to 1948 with FORTUNE, LIFE and TIME), an occasional novelist (To My Father, The Death of Kings), a big man with a strong appetite for good living. This is his widow's story from the time he learned, in the fall of 1954, that he had cancer of the lower bowel until, less than four months later, he committed suicide, at 53, by slashing his wrists with a razor handed to him by his wife...
...soon becomes clear that these are not ordinary people. No ordinary widow would recall in print that on the night before the journey to the hospital, "weary, and suddenly very weak as he was, Wert made love to me. It was simple and mutual and profound...