Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Musicomedienne Merman goes at her work in much the same way, whether she is peddling peanuts or pearls. She plays a rich, uninhibited Philadelphia widow who, unwelcome in society and uninvited to the Monaco nuptials, vengefully bags bigger game from the royal preserves. Where she can, Ethel outflanks her material; where she cannot, she outstares it. Just watching her handle a third-rate song can compensate for its third-rateness. Whatever her stage environment-riding an ocean liner or bucking the Main Line, singing of a dead husband or chatting with a live horse-she has the urgency...
...Jawlensky (pronounced Yav-lensky) is having a spirited revival that has brought a round of exhibits in Germany, London and Paris, and a current show at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries (see color page). Chief reason: the release of nearly 100 Jawlensky paintings, by his 75-year-old widow, who lives in Wiesbaden. The new showings have placed Jawlensky with Kandinsky and Chagall among the best of Russia's 20th century painters...
Died. Mrs. Else F. Schlemmer, petite, fiftyish, Danish-born widow of William F. Schlemmer, longtime (1916-45) owner of Hammacher Schlemmer, Manhattan's classy housewares knickknack (sea-urchin paste, bronze fig leaves for statues) dispensary, who took over the firm, ran it for eight years after her husband's death, in 1952 named more than 100 store employees in her sizable will; after long illness; in Manhattan...
When her husband died eleven months ago, Mrs. Charles Ulrick Bay, widow of the former U.S. Ambassador to Norway, found herself with 71% of the stock in Wall Street's venerable (since 1865) brokerage firm of A. M. Kidder & Co. Inc. But the New York Stock Exchange requires, in effect, that a stockholder who owns more than 45% of a member company's shares must either 1) sell the stock, or 2) take an active part in the firm. Since she always had an active interest in her husband's business and philanthropic dealings...
...made only $5,000,000 by closing time. With his filthy lucre, Sanders buys himself a fine Fifth Avenue mansion and decorates it with such costly bric-a-brac as a millionairess (Zsa Zsa Gabor), her secretary (Nancy Gates), the wife of a business rival (Coleen Gray), the widow (Lisa Ferraday) of the brother he had betrayed...