Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clerks, assistants, typists and chefs, moved into Manhattan in style. They rented chauffeur-driven Cadillacs to get around town (at $12 an hour) and took over the entire 72-room 14th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel-except for one room occupied for 25 years by an elderly widow who refused to move out. The midtown pad cost the People's Republic at least $2,160 per night. The hotel responded nimbly to every request from the Chinese. Color television sets and hot plates were added to every room, a Chinese chef was hired, extra-large teacups were bought...
...that "grandeur will be sold in the form of small medals, small flags and crosses of Lorraine in nougatine [candy]." Last week, as France marked the first anniversary of De Gaulle's death, with President Georges Pompidou attending a Mass at Notre Dame and De Gaulle's widow and family a simple ceremony in Colombey, it was apparent that much of his prophecy had come true...
...ritual is simple: a walk to the village church containing the family pew, to the grave site, to the walled estate of La Boisserie, where De Gaulle's widow Yvonne still lives in virtual seclusion, and then back to the town. There old, nearly empty restaurants have suddenly become packed and new restaurants are springing up, along with hotels. Colombey's streets have been repaved, there is a new post office to handle demands for a special anniversary stamp, and a 1,200-car parking lot is being built...
...billed as "the youngest prima donna in captivity," she joined the touring J.J. Shubert operetta company, starring in Gilbert and Sullivan the first season and in The Merry Widow and The Countess Maritza the second. More dubious engagements followed on the borscht circuit and at a private after-hours club in Manhattan, where she wheeled a piano around the room and performed light classics for tips that sometimes totaled $150 a night. In response to Papa's pleas that she at least devote herself to grand opera, she signed with the Charles Wagner Opera Co., a provincial touring unit. Opera...
...show is tiny, and instead of really illustrating the Fogg's collection, it points out how little of a collection exists. Of the roughly 3,000 prints, 2,500 of them are by Ben Shahn, gifts of his widow. But luckily the Fogg's photo collection will be growing as a result of a $10,000 matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to purchase photos by contemporary Americans. Hopefully, they will match the sum by July 31, 1972, to fill in some of the collection's gaps: there are no examples of surrealist works--collages, or photograms...