Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title in Great Britain. Early this year the dream came true for 60-year-old Adrian Ivor Dunbar, a handyman from Upper Fairmount, Md. Adrian left England more than 40 years ago, made his way to the U.S. in slow stages via Australia and Canada, married a comely widow, fathered two sons (both now in the U.S. Army) and in 1939 became a U.S. citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never seen, Handyman Dunbar suddenly became Sir Adrian Dunbar, heir to a 259-year-old Scottish baronetcy and a 3,400-acre Wigtownshire estate...
Hovering in the background of all this, is Vivian's widowed mother, an alcoholic since the death of the daughter who despised her ("My bird, my bird" . . . "She hopped from the cliff like a cricket"). Miss Dunnock seems uncertain whether she should be tragic or pitifully absurd, as she flings hot-dogs around the stage and talks of the husband who never loved her. In any case, she gets little sympathy, least of all from Mrs. Eastman Cuevas, who tells the widow who clutches her hysterically and begs her not to leave: "Stop brooding!", a line reminiscent of Charles Addams...
...partner in the notorious Loeb-Leopold "thrill murder" of Bobby Franks in 1924, got word that his brother Foreman, who died this month, had cut him out of his will. Foreman, who with his family changed his last name to Lebold, left a $400,000 estate to his widow...
After some 15 months in the doldrums, Harry White swung back into action, and his years of greatest influence were the early 19405. He kept on drawing plans until the day he left public service. A search through his papers at Princeton University (they were donated by his widow) last week showed that he had proposed 1) that the U.S. give Russia a $10 billion postwar credit, and 2) that the U.S. conserve its raw-material resources for the next two generations and import from Russia to meet domestic needs. This combination of plans, of course, would have been...
...tiny (pop. 100) community of Blue Hole, tucked away in the Clay County mountains of Kentucky, everyone knows Widow Sarah Collett, and everyone calls her "Aunt." She is a kindly, grey-haired woman of 75 who has so many kinfolks in town that she can claim to be the grandmother, great-aunt, or at least a cousin of every boy and girl in the local one-room school. It was only natural that, with all her relatives, Aunt Sarah should be worried about the school...