Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified he saw her pistol-whip a crippled widow to death. Barbara, Santo and Perkins were convicted, and Barbara became the third woman in California to be sentenced to death...
Costume Designer Paul du Pont had a perfectly clear idea of how Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow should be dressed...
...customers and what they buy are private matters. But four months ago, the firm complained publicly about a customer in a way that shook café society and Hollywood; it had received a worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power, jewels worth $132,500, made partial payment with a $100,000 check that bounced. Unable to collect from Schlesinger...
...Suzy Volterra, 38, a pert, blonde Parisian widow, was not exactly a plunger. When her bay colt Phil Drake went to the post for the 176th running of the English Derby at Epsom Downs last week, it had the bright red and white of the Volterra stables on its back and only $56 of Suzy's money on its nose. With fine French caution, Suzy also bet $14 insurance money on the Aga Khan's Hafiz...
Married. Roy Allison Roberts, 67, president of the Kansas City Star Co. and editor and general manager of the Star, early backer of Eisenhower as a candidate for President; and Mrs. Florence G. Ross, 61, widow of Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary under President Harry Truman; both for the second time; in Washington...