Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Helen Amelia Thompson ("Ma") Sunday. 88, widow of Bible-banging Evangelist Billy Sunday who besought the unsaved with him for 39 years, presided over the sawdust trail alone ("God is my business manager") after he died in 1935; of lung cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz. Ma Sunday's stern pronouncement: "The country is in a mess, and God knows about...
...picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps and sudden violence which gives the flashes of human love and devotion an original and affecting backdrop. By the time the Widow Odom tells him in Florida, "Boy, you're getting handsomer than the Devil in snakeskin shoes," Polk is reasonably immune to the surprises of life...
...those who know her, there was nothing surprising about the tribute to Ella Cochrum Fondren-or about her reaction to it. The widow of one of the founders of the Humble Oil & Refining Co., she has spent a lifetime giving her time and money to Texas institutions, but in refreshing contrast to the flashier philanthropists of oildom, she has always insisted on staying quietly behind the scenes. Those who honored her last week at first despaired of getting her to the ceremony at all. Says Methodist Episcopal Bishop A. Frank Smith of Houston: "We practically had to drag her into...
...furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three-dimensional object that is pleasing to look at from any direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting that quietly reaffirms Mies's famed dictum that "less is more...
...decides to kiss and make up, which woman is his lawful wife? 2) When he labors through his upcoming income-tax return, should he file jointly with Gert or Dolly? 3) If he were to die before the two, which would have the legal claim to a widow's share of his (estimated) $70 million estate? The judge asked for time to think...