Word: widowhood
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SEND ME NO FLOWERS. As a suburban hypochondriac who feels the end is nigh, Rock Hudson prepares Wife Doris Day for widowhood, while Tony Randall keeps the fun alive as a macabre neighbor...
Brassily playing Jay is Robert (The Music Man) Preston as a man so full of the juice of life that Wife Jean Simmons can't decide whether the love she feels for him is sacred or profane. When "God takes him away," Actress Simmons, facing widowhood and the birth of another child, capably brings off several scenes of throat-filling pathos. Helping her along is the family -here presented as a gallery of bloodless tintypes except for Aline MacMahon, repeating her stage portrayal of Aunt Hannah, and Pat Hingle as Jay's bumptious undertaker brother, whose hands reek...
Died. William Henry Beveridge, 84, first and last (he left no heir) Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, who in 1942 published his "Social Insurance and Allied Services" report, which called for unemployment, health, marriage, maternity, widowhood, old age and death benefits for every British citizen, and became the framework for Britain's present-day "womb to tomb" coverage; in London...
...front feminine attack on the business and professional fields of men. But in a society of early marriage, lightened housework and lengthened lives, she does deplore women who abdicate their obligation to put their brains and education to creative use. Marriage, motherhood, the fledging of children and possibly widowhood subject a woman's life to stressful changes, and she must be "ready to come out alive...
...Congress on the insistence of New Jersey Boss Frank Hague, served with distinction for 26 years (once. when a colleague referred to her as a lady, Mrs. Norton snapped: "I'm no lady. I'm a member of Congress!"). Hattie Caraway of Arkansas reached the Senate through widowhood, appointed to serve out the term of her husband, Thaddeus Caraway, and won re-election with the help of Huey Long, who brought his sound truck upriver from Louisiana and persuaded "Miss Hattie" to put aside her bright clothes for more poignant widow's weeds. During her two terms...