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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passengers were unanimously enthusiastic about their experiences. Among them was Mrs. Clara Adams, rich and inveterately aeronautical widow of a Tannersville, Pa., tanner. She had been the first paying woman passenger on the Graf. She flew to Rio de Janeiro for the trip back aboard the DO-X. Said experienced Mrs. Adams: "You could hardly tell you were flying. The noise of the motors did not intrude unless you opened the port holes. Vibration also was notably absent. The cabins were spacious and comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Dough-Icks | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...They arrived just in time to get a flickering smile of loving recognition from their mother before she slipped quietly away from them forever. Too late was her daughter Fola, wife of Dramatist George Middleton, hurrying east from Santa Monica. Of all the tributes evoked by the death of Widow La Follette none was more appreciated by her family than the one (not made public) from the outstanding Liberal of the U. S. Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Brandeis who signed himself "Uncle Louis." Mrs. La Follette's body was carried back to Madison, placed as close beside her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Two Widows | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...another famed widow of a famed husband Death came last week. Elizabeth Genevieve McEvoy ("Bessie McCoy") Davis expired in a Bayonne, France, hospital after an emergency operation. In 1912, aged 24, Bessie McCoy married Richard Harding Davis, swashbuckling war correspondent for the New York Tribune, playwright (The Dictator, Miss Civilization], author (Soldiers of Fortune, The White Mice). Witnesses: Actress Ethel Barrymore, Author Gouverneur Morris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Two Widows | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Pittsfield, Ill., Rose Haskins married Jim Moorehead. Jim Moorehead died. Widow Moorehead married his brother, Leo Moorehead. Leo Moorehead died. Twice-a-Widow Moorehead Moorehead married brother Joe Moorehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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