Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George gets them. His trials begin with the sudden death of his talented older brother Jeff, who had designed and built the Tower in the West, one of the first skyscrapers in St. Louis. Six months after the fatal accident, George learns that his brother's widow is pregnant by another man. To protect Jeff's good name, he marries her and breaks the heart of true-blue Margaret Carton, who has been patiently waiting for his proposal. George now proceeds to mishandle the affairs of his stepchildren, loses control of his brother's monumental Tower...
...Them All Together. In Turin, Italy, when police arrived to quiet a family quarrel, they got an explanation from outnumbered Bridegroom Antonio Gu-glielmone: just before the wedding, his wife admitted that she wasn't a spinster but a widow with two children, then "finally she admitted that . . . she really had three children, not two. Then as time went by she seemed worried once more . . . and there were four children, not three . . . and then five children, not four ... I was concerned about the speed of the family's growth...
Died. Grace Reidy Comiskey, 62, blonde, baseball-wise widow of fleshy (400 lb.) J. Louis Comiskey. owner of the Chicago White Sox since his death in 1939; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Businesswoman Comiskey took over active control of the White Sox by breaking her husband's will, which named a trustee to run the club, became the American League's first woman president, later defeated her son Charles's efforts to win control...
...curiously appropriate name of the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, last of the Czars of Russia. Many romantics fondly believe that Anastasia survived the slaughter of the royal family in a Siberian cellar in 1918, escaped with two members of the firing squad, and is living today, an indigent widow, near Stuttgart, West Germany. On Broadway, Anastasia was a financially successful attempt, made in 1954, to resurrect this legend in the dubious form of a Cinderella story, with undertones of the old amnesia plot. The play has now become a film vehicle for the resurrection of Ingrid Bergman...
...Them All Together. In Turin, Italy, when police arrived to quiet a family quarrel, they got an explanation from outnumbered Bridegroom Antonio Guglielmone: just before the wedding, his wife admitted that she wasn't a spinster but a widow with two children, then "finally she admitted that . . . she really had three children, not two. Then as time went by she seemed worried once more . . . and there were four children, not three . . . and then five children, not four... I was concerned about the speed of the family's growth...