Search Details

Word: widower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A young widow (Hope Lange) and her two children move into a seacoast cottage haunted by the quarrelsome ghost of a 19th century sea captain (Edward Mul-hare). Premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 20, 1968 | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...paper, the 1968-69 season, which opens this week, looks indistinguishable from 1967-68. Onscreen, viewers will find a few new wrinkles. Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Big Valley, The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons encouraged a trend by all featuring at least one character who was a widow or a widower. This year the trend becomes a stampede. In addition, the big, new angle is interracial - there is a vast increase in roles played by Ne groes. Whether all this signifies a vast improvement in entertainment is, of course, problematical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: Here Come the Merry Widows | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...berry R.F.D. (CBS) is a revised version of The Andy Griffith Show. The new star, Ken Berry, carries on in the tradition: he is a widower in love with a bakery employee (Arlene Golonka). Here's Lucy (CBS) is just a new title for the old Lucy Show, except that Lucy's two real-life kids will be around; naturally she is a widow. So is Doris Day (CBS), who is making her TV debut in The Doris Day Show. She portrays a singer who leaves career and city after the death of her husband and goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: Here Come the Merry Widows | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...Bertha Hecht, a 66-year-old widow in San Mateo, Calif., turned over her inherited portfolio of blue-chip stocks worth $533,161 to a representative of Wall Street's venerable Harris, Upham & Co. Seven years later, she found her fortune cut in half. She is still fighting to recoup her losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stocks: Broke at the Broker's | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...event, Mrs. Hecht paid Harris, Upham a total of $232,000 in commissions and interest on margin loans. Not surprisingly, the California widow was one of Harris, Upham's best customers in that state; in fact, for seven years she accounted for 4.7% of the San Francisco office's revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stocks: Broke at the Broker's | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

Previous | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Next