Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remembering Hungary Sir: Concerning your story on the "Widow's Christmas" [Dec. 30]: there are many who would like to forget the Hungarian revolution because it is such an unpleasant reminder of the political impotency of the Western world. TIME deserves credit for keeping our consciences troubled...
...perfume salesman, Clé lived with Félicie in a cozy, two-room Paris apartment just down the street from Père-Lachaise Cemetery. He was a quiet man, always neatly dressed, always polite to his neighbors. Félicie was a short, plump, sad-eyed widow with bobbed greying hair. Eleven months ago she disappeared. Clé explained, "Félicie has gone to Italy. Life is much easier there. I will soon join her." But to occasional callers who rang the bell and asked for her, Charles Clément was more truthful: "Madame cannot...
...Only two other major portraits are still privately owned: Baronne James de Rothschild, still proudly owned by the Rothschild family, and M. Devillcrs, now in Switzerland in the collection of Madame Emil Biihrle, widow of the famed munitions maker...
...once urbane and eerie, Deadly Game achieved some of the quality of a Lord Dunsany shocker, benefited from skilled construction as well as from Actor Merrill's supple playing at the head of a sure cast, including Boris Karloff and Harry Townes. Closing scene: Merrill's widow, no angel either, drops in unexpectedly, agrees to stay for dinner and perhaps a parlor game afterward to take her mind off her bereavement...
Died. Elizabeth ("Betty") Faulkner Henderson, 82, uninhibited café-society showoff ("I'll relax and behave myself for three days after my wake"), thrice-married widow (her last: Oklahoma Oilman Frank C. Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...