Word: widower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAMBRIDGE--A 70-year-old Cambridge widow has won a first prize of $120,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes...
Godfrey Rainbird, a 30-year-old British-born emigrant to New Zealand, is pronounced dead after a traffic accident. His wife prepares to don widow's weeds, his children begin to adjust as orphans, his sister flies from England for the funeral. A monogrammed casket is purchased, a cemetery plot arranged for, But there is no funeral. Thirty-six hours after his "death," Godfrey rises from a deep coma, a little shaky but quite ready to resume his life...
When Lewis died in 1949, he had completed only the first volume of a projected trilogy on Ulysses S. Grant. His widow, searching for someone to complete the work, selected Catton, then already on his way to a Pulitzer prize with Mr. Lincoln's Army and Glory Road. Using Lewis' abundant notes, Catton carried on. In Grant Moves South (1960), he brought Grant from his unpromising early career up to his tenacious triumph at Vicksburg. Now, in Grant Takes Command, he follows the taciturn-little general to his day of final victory at Appomattox...
...funeral, reservists were called up and extra police posted in Arab sections of the city. After a service in the Knesset plaza, the procession moved quickly to the graveside, where the coffin was hurriedly lowered into a stone-lined grave. Acting Premier Allon stood beside Eshkol's widow, Miriam, while Dayan stood at the edge of the crowd and Mrs. Meir, teary-eyed and pale, was lost amid the throng. An army detail placed slabs of marble on top of the coffin and then poured baskets of Jerusalem earth into the grave...
...widow's body was found in the bedroom of her Linnean St. apartment after she failed to appear for work. Detectives speculate that the killer forced open the rear door to her apartment and surprised her after she had gone to sleep...