Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What happens to Channing should not befall any hard-working superstar. At the play's beginning, she is a rich widow mourning her husband by wearing every awful gem he ever gave her. About to board the Ile de France, she recalls an earlier, gayer voyage. The rest of the evening flashes back to Gentlemen...
...made automatic rifle given to him by Cuba's Fidel Castro. Fascinating though they are, the photos do not resolve the questions about how Allende died. The military junta that now runs Chile claims that Allende committed suicide by killing himself with his rifle. But Allende's widow, Hortensia Bussi de Allende, now living in exile in Mexico, disputes that. Although she originally accepted the suicide theory, she now insists that her husband was shot by the junta's soldiers...
...Perot has been sued by Nella A. Walston, widow of the founder and a major holder of Walston stock. She charged that Perot and his partners seized control of the firm in order to use its capital to cut their multimillion-dollar losses in duPont Glore Forgan. into which they had poured at least $65 million. She asked the court to declare the semimerger null and void and to put both Walston and duPont Glore Forgan into receivership...
Died. Dorothy Shakespear Pound, 87, forbearing widow of Poet Ezra Pound, with whom she shared his triumphs and eccentricities-and her annuity-from 1914 to 1960; near Cambridge, England. She met Pound in pre-World War I London and introduced him to members of her circle, including W.B. Yeats. She designed several of her husband's books and magazines in Paris, and was the mother of Pound's son Omar. During World War II she shared her home and her husband with Concert Pianist Olga Rudge, who had borne Pound a daughter. Dorothy Pound followed her husband...
...despoiling stewardesses and brooding about the decline of the West. He quests forth, when funds are low, to do battle for the dread forces of reality-a Robin Hood among chattel rustlers who steals loot back from thugs and swindlers and returns it, minus a 50% commission, to the widows and orphans from whom it was taken. Oftener than not a girl enters the picture. Part of the game is to guess whether she is a thug, swindler, widow or orphan...