Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another widow of wealth, social prominence and energy, Mrs. Patterson has had the problem of finding a career. Of the third generation of a publishing family, she has long inclined in the family direction, has tried to buy first the Washington Post, then the Herald. She also offered to lease the Herald. In last week's announcement of her new connection, the Herald said: "Hearst papers are not for sale. . . . Mrs. Patterson will work . . . under the regular Hearst newspaper contract...
Left. By Chauncey Mitchell Depew. who died in April. 1928: $15,954.249 net. Bequests: to Yale University, $1,000,000; to Peekskill, X. Y.. $100.000: to widow, son, nieces, most of the residue...
Married. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 65, famed politician and stock gambler, a widower since 1928; to a Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, 45, Manhattan widow; at Christ Church, Mayfair, London...
Engagement Reported. Capt. Marshall Field III, onetime student at Eton College and Cambridge University, sportsman, head of Field, Glore & Co. (Chicago brokers), director of Guaranty Trust Co. (New York); to Audrey James Coats, London society beauty, widow of Dudley Coats, daughter of Mrs. Willie James who was an illustrious hostess in London and a close friend of Edward VII. The present Mrs. Marshall (Evelyn Marshall) Field III is in Reno, expecting a divorce early in August. Last week, Capt. Field made his first solo airplane flight, at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; flew 20 minutes, landed four times...
...western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...