Word: widower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poulet mascotte and filet tie boeuf pe-rigourdinc." And so in Soule's will, filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed "a watch to my dear friend J. Edgar Hoover," the FBI's bonded epicurean...
...male jury put in 16½ hours before it could agree. And much of the time was spent in theorizing about the possible guilt of Weissel, although the jurymen had heard little evidence connecting him with Mossler-a tribute to the mesmeric skill of Lawyer Foreman. As for Widow Mossler, she and her nephew are now free to enjoy a duly inherited $28 million of her husband's money...
...consular service. He formed a menage a trois with a Belgian couple in London, dictating his diary to his host's wife and patting the heads of her nine children. Finally discharged from the consular service for "inattention to duty," he lived on with the Belgian widow, under sentence of death from cancer of the throat. In 1902, he died at 65 in the best Western tradition, with his boots on and almost broke: leaving an estate of $1,800 and a story in progress on his table...
Married. Leonard K. Firestone, 58, son of the late rubber magnate, Harvey S. Firestone, and intended victim of an abortive multimillion-dollar kidnap plot two months ago; and Barbara Knickerbocker Heatley, 50, widow of a San Francisco banker; both for the second time; in Carmel, Calif...
...wasn't it a long, fond wake the widow held? After Irish Playwright Brendan Behan died of "the gargle" two years ago, Beatrice Behan, 40, told Redbook in Dublin, "I spent a few months drinking around in the pubs where they knew him." After a while, said Beatrice, "I felt his personality slipping under my skin.. I imagined that everyone loved me, and I even sang those dreary I.R.A. songs that Brendan used to sing. But then I realized I was not being natural, so I drink but little now." Still, considering the mourning after, the great gargler...