Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Soviet leaders now openly pledged to retwist Stalin's twisted chronicles of the Bolsheviks (TIME, March 5), Natalia Sedova Trotsky, widow of assassinated (in 1940) Old Bolshevik Leon Trotsky, crept out of limbo in a Mexico City suburb to announce that she has sent two messages to the Kremlin. Her goading requests: 1) Whatever happened to her engineer son Sergei, last heard from in Moscow some 20 years ago? 2) When will the Soviets honestly rewrite the history of denounced "Traitor" Leon Trotsky and of his "deviationist" son Leon Jr., who died mysteriously after an operation...
Next instant he is wooing the widow of a prince he recently killed "in my angry mood at Tewkesbury," and wooing her with cold precision and success even as she kneels by her husband's corpse. He plots his brother (Gielgud) into the king's disgrace, and has him murdered in the Tower-drowned, as a matter of gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot...
...There, in the fishing village of Trappeto, with his own meager savings and a few small contributions from outside, he put up a collection of shacks and shanties which he called "the Hamlet of God" to provide shelter for the area's neediest cases. He married an impoverished widow with five children; together they adopted five more childen...
...Columbia LP, Lotte Lenya sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill; the composer's widow does Mack the Knife and other Threepenny ditties as they should be done. Fiftyish, and after two years of starring in a successful New York revival of the work, Lotte Lenya still sings with a smoky, strangely appealing quality that always suggests the waif beneath the cynic...
Died. Maria Clopton Jackson, 93, widow of C. S. ("Sam") Jackson, doughty founder (in 1902) of Portland's independent Oregon Journal (circ. 182,257), longtime board chairman of the Journal Publishing Co.; in Portland...