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...Terry Moore was validly married to Hughes and no legal divorce was obtained, she is Hughes' widow and entitled to dower or widow's interest. Hughes could not have divorced her simply by destroying a ship...
...black activist group based in California, US, Inc., to kill one another. The cold-eyed crusade against Martin Luther King Jr.-"the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country"-included not only the familiar taping of his bedroom activities but also plans to harass his widow after his assassination...
Some New Yorkers protested. The only Puerto Rican in the House of Representatives, Bronx Congressman Herman Badillo, suggested that the board could "find more impressive people than Mr. Albizu, who supported violence and overthrow of governments." Asked LaGuardia's widow, Marie: "Can they do that?" At week's end the board was standing by its eccentric decision...
...speaker is Sandy, a pretty, warm-eyed young widow who had been pregnant with her second child when doctors had diagnosed her husband's lymphosarcoma. At first she hesitated to tell Mark, then 29, that he had but five months to live. But there was a tradition of honesty in their marriage, and she realized she needed to draw strength from him. "The truth set us free," she says. "When I told him, he cried ... But a huge weight lifted because we could share it." Sneaking her new baby into the hospital under a poncho, Sandy nursed...
...Plunder, serene fare today but daring when it was first produced 48 years ago because it set jewel theft and murder in a French-window farce. And brand new is The Bed Before Yesterday, a West End comedy that stars Joan Plowright as a foul-tempered, filthy-rich, frustrated widow belatedly discovering the pleasures of the marriage bed. The double-header triumph has earned Travers acclaim he has not received in decades. Says Guardian Critic Michael Billington: "It is heartening to find a comedy that comes down so wittily and unequivocally on the side of life...