Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most dangerous enemy-one man who will not save his life by confessing to a lie. Building to a powerful crescendo, The Crucible makes its hero (Robert Foxworth) face just that terrible choice. It is so easy to confess and not have to leave his wife (Martha Henry) a widow, his children fatherless. For a long moment he is tempted, and then he looks into an abyss darker than the loss of his life: the death of his soul...
...Isabel Washington and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott-reflected Powell's affinity for glamour. His conquests were many. Some, like Yvette and his former-beauty-queen secretary, Corinne Huff, were even put on his staff payroll and paid $20,000 a year. In 1963 Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, won a $46,500 defamation judgment against Powell, who on TV called her a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. For nearly five years he managed to avoid payment, partly by staying out of New York except on Sundays, when legal papers are not served...
...prospect. A granddaughter of Auto Magnate Horace E. Dodge, she was entitled to one-quarter of the $56 million he left in trust at his death in 1920. But there was a catch: the money could not be touched as long as Dodge's widow lived, which the hardy Scotswoman proceeded to do until 1970 when, by her own reckoning...
...return the expected verdict, clearing the authorities. The pressure off at last, the patrolmen gathered on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse, where some jumped up and down and whooped their delight. Inside, the mother of one of the slain blacks cried hysterically at the verdict. The young widow of the other victim silently returned to her motel room...
Part of the justification for retelling all this is Scott's presentation of three exceptional women characters. It seems clear that for the author they are England. One is a tough elderly widow, Maybel Layton, who has foreseen the end of British India for years and feels that it is richly deserved. The second is Mildred, the wife of Colonel Layton, Maybel's stepson. The third is the book's major figure, a retired mission schoolteacher named Barbie Batchelor. She is a good, decent person, not very bright, and downright foolish about matters of practicality and self...