Word: widowered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orderly work of the cops and courts unquestionably relieved the tensions that had built up during the most tragic fortnight in Panama's history. Cecilia Remón, Chichi's widow, took to the radio to ask the people to give the government of new President Ricardo (Dickie) Arias wholehearted cooperation. He in turn promised to carry on Remón's policies. The first public laugh of the troubled new year was provided by haughty ex-President Arnulfo Arias (no kin to Dickie), who as Remón's ancient enemy was jailed after...
Married. Thomas E. Millsop, 56, president of National Steel Corp., fifth largest U.S. producer; and Mrs. Frances Weir, widow of David M. Weir, one of the founders of the Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary); he for the third time, she for the second; in San Francisco...
Married. Mrs. Mona Harrison Williams, 57, perennially "best dressed" widow of Public Utilitycoon Harrison Williams, who left her the bulk of his estimated $12 million fortune when he died 14 months ago, aged 80; and Count Albert Edward Bismarck, 51, interior decorator and grandson of Prince Otto von Bismarck, first chancellor of the German Empire; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Edgewater...
...sellers were Mrs. Curtis B. Johnson, widow of the Observer's longtime publisher, who owned 5,750 (57½%) shares of stock, and Mrs. Walter B. Sullivan, widow of the Observer's co-owner, who held the rest of the stock. The Observer's new publisher will be Jim Knight, executive vice president of the chain and general manager of the Miami Herald. Said new Publisher Knight in a city-room talk to the Observer's staff: "We intend to run the Observer as a completely local operation. We have a few tricks we can offer...
...state. In anger he pounded out a series of articles that started one of the best-known, singlehanded crusades in Texas newspapering. Since 1946, he has crisscrossed Texas in his MG, buttonholing politicians, speaking before fund-raising rallies, and reporting his progress in the News. When a wealthy Texas widow died, McCormick persuaded her executors to use $250,000 of her estate to build a 52-bed hospital for tuberculous children. By last week he had promises from dozens of leading politicians for a $500,000 appropriation by the State legislature for new children's tuberculosis facilities...