Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always on the alert for some way to widen his scope, Rapp spotted Prokofiev's left-hand concerto on a list, wrote to his widow in Moscow to ask her for the score. As the music was heard in Berlin last week (with the Metropolitan Opera's Martin Rich conducting), it no longer seemed aggressively modern, as it had to Wittgenstein, but more like an old friend. The whole piece is sprayed with crotchety harmonies, but it always makes the kind of leeway towards a safe harmonic port that is part of Prokofiev's charm. The solo...
...Fiorello H. La Guardia, widow of New York's onetime Fusion mayor, a member of Citizens for Eisenhower in 1952, will become a national vice chair man of the Volunteers for Stevenson Kefauver...
Reported engaged to Presidential Candidate Adlai E. Stevenson, Mrs. Dorothy Vredenburgh, a handsome Alabama widow and secretary to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, coyly suggested to inquiring reporters: "You better ask Adlai." Asked, Adlai gallantly replied: "I was never more flattered, but unfortunately there is no truth to it." Mrs. Vredenburgh then turned her pretty head and set sail on the He de France for other climes, murmuring that Adlai "is a great friend and a great...
...wowser," Damon Runyon reported) sometimes crawled around making "funny noises," was inordinately fond of a pet African honking gander; of a brain hemorrhage and liver failure after a fall in her Manhattan apartment. Peaches lost her divorce suit, but after Daddy died (1934) won $154,971 as his legal widow, later was married and divorced three times...
Died. Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell, 98, tiny, frail widow of U.S. composer Edward (To a Wild Rose) MacDowell, who established a memorial artists' retreat at Peterborough, N.H. after his death (1908) with funds raised from concerts (she was an accomplished pianist), speeches and friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson...