Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...microphysics, which has become all-important with increased knowledge of the atom. By fall, Zacharias hopes to have ready the first part of an experimental textbook that will concentrate on basic laws and include the major discoveries of the last few years. For especially interested students, Laura Fermi, widow of the Nobel Prizewinner, is editing a series of paperback monographs on everything from cosmic rays to ferromagnetism. In addition, the project will turn out scores of films that alone will cost $2 million...
...recent rise to operatic stardom. Two years ago she was an offstage voice at the Berlin State Opera; she is now under contract with Berlin for two more seasons. She made her first successes as Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, and the Sexton's Widow in Leos Janacek's Jenufa, made her debut at the Metropolitan last spring as Eboli, will return there for several guest appearances next season. In Europe she has been such a spectacular overnight success, notes one British critic, that "she has only to be announced to fill the house...
Married. Joseph Nye Welch, 66, Boston lawyer, chief Army counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings (April-June 1954); and Agnes Rogers Brown, sixtyish, widow of Charles W. Brown Jr., one of Welch's closest friends; both for the second time; in Brookline, Mass...
Dead Aim. Marty's pal was quiet, tousle-haired Curtis Raymond Edwards, 14, son of a Germantown widow living on social security. As the two boys drove around all night, Marty poured out the troubles he was having with his old man. ended up by saying, "I'm fed up with him. I'm going to get a gun." Ray had won a marksmanship medal at summer camp in 1955-Would he help out? Sure. Young Daniels borrowed a .30-30 Marlin hunting rifle and one cartridge, also picked up a second recruit-Albert Strolis...
Unfortunately, she is not referring to the plot, which continues. Actress Parker goes to a convent, where she acquires Wisdom: "One cannot find peace in the world or in a convent, but only in oneself." Rather than swallow such bromides, the husband dies of cholera, and, as the widow sails away into the sunset, she remarks: "I'm beginning to like myself." It is hard...