Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building a $2,000,000 clubhouse that has already been paid for by the sale of more than fifty 1½-acre plots (top price: $75,000). Four miles from Taylor's project is the Coral Harbour Club, bankrolled to the tune of $2,000,000 by the widow and children of Coca-Cola Co. Director Lindsey Hopkins...
...shareholders of the Alleghany Corp. holding company last week went proxy statements nominating Anita O'Keeffe Young,* sixtyish widow of Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, tp the Alleghany board. Mrs. Young, who is sure to be elected, has a heavy personal stake in the holding company once run by her husband. Counting Alleghany securities she owned before his death and what she inherited, her investment in the company is now worth around $9,000,000, second only to the $11 million interest of Alleghany Chairman and President Allan Kirby. Mrs. Young was long a silent partner in her husband...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...
...takes dingy rooms in Kensington, enrolls in a secretarial school. She tangles with her brother, a brilliant, sexually confused war wreck, who has turned from the complexities of civilized life to the simplicities of horticulture. Author Wilson puts his widow in the temporary toils of an Angry Young Man, the pointy-bearded but pointless son of her best friend. In a savage little vignette Wilson makes clear that the fellow is angry not because he is young, but because he is not really...