Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving it back until eleven months later, after Wolfson had been indicted for defrauding stockholders-but he had also agreed to accept $20,000 a year for life. The payments were to go to his wife Carolyn, also a lawyer, if she survived him. The services he or his widow were to perform were spelled out only vaguely in his case. He had intended, he told Warren, to "help shape" the program and activities of the foundation, whose stated aim was to further racial and religious harmony. There was no explanation of Mrs. Fortas' role. While Fortas denied interceding...
Wooded Seclusion. The classic red-roofed Spanish house was built 45 years ago by Henry Hamilton Cotton, millionaire real estate developer and prominent California Democrat. His widow, now 90, still lives there. Cotton brought Mexican artisans to lay the tile floors and build furniture and thick, wood-pegged doors. The house encloses a warm, sheltered patio with a fountain, outdoor fireplace, lawn and shrubbery. All five bedrooms open on the patio. Nixon likes seclusion and is especially fond of a semicircular library, reachable only from an outside stairway. Wide living room windows overlook the ocean...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Dorothy Tutin stars as Catherine of Valois, the tragic widow of Henry V and grandmother of Henry VII in "The Queen and the Welshman...
...familiar domestic scene. A passerby would hardly give it a second glance?except for one fact. This is a Kennedy home: Hickory Hill, the domicile of Ethel Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy's widow, mother of his eleven children. And what happens in the life of a Kennedy automatically becomes the object of universal fascination...
Died. Queen Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena, 81, widow of Spain's last king, Alfonso XIII, exiled with her husband in 1931 when the country was proclaimed a republic; after a long illness; in Ouchy, Switzerland. One of 40 grandchildren of Britain's Queen Victoria, the gentle Queen Ena suffered stoically through a life studded with sadness. In 1906, an anarchist's bomb thrown at her bridal coach killed a score of bystanders. One of her sons was deaf, two were hemophiliacs (they later died in automobile accidents). King Alfonso was a known philanderer and, after going into...