Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days after Grover Cleveland was nominated for the presidency in 1884, the Buffalo Telegraph revealed in a lead article, headlined "A Terrible Tale," that Cleveland was the father of the nine-year-old son of Maria Crofts Hatpin, a widow. Cleveland did not deny...
...have to fuss with the pin-pricking routines of tests and homework. There are no credits and no grades. Says Program Director Douglas Carter, 33: "This type of student will dig into things for himself." Some noted guest lecturers will spur the digging. Last week Laura Fermi, widow of Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, began lecturing on science for ten days. She will be followed by Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Playwright Paul Green and Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges. A symphony orchestra, string ensemble, ballet and drama groups are already deep into rehearsals. The sheer responsiveness...
Lotte Lenya owned Kurt Weill's music long before she became his widow. Her ravished soprano perfectly matched the temper of his Berlin theater songs-tough, bragging, wicked, hopeless-and no one could have done more with Bertolt Brecht's lyrics than a singer whose voice combines the chilling qualities of sober screams and drunken laughter. Even now-years past the peak of her career-Lenya's artistic claim frightens other singers off her turf...
...house in a bleak suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is heavily shuttered, its garden stifled by weeds. But it is home to Veronika Eichmann, widow of Nazi Criminal Adolf Eichmann. Last week, just a year after her husband's death, home she came with son Hassi, 7, from an unnamed hiding place in Western Germany. Barricaded once more behind the white-painted walls, Frau Eichmann and family (her son Dieter, his wife and child) remain in isolation, screaming at intruders, "Leave us alone! Haven't we suffered enough?" Their nearest neighbors merely shrug. "Eichmann built them a prison...
Edwin Green was a Florida construction executive who smoked one or two packs of Lucky Strikes daily for most of his adult life and died in 1958, at the age of 49, of lung cancer. His widow and son sued for $1,500,000 damages from the American Tobacco Co., maker of Luckies. Last week, after the claim had been struck down by a district court and a federal appeals court, the Florida Supreme Court handed down an "advisory opinion" that both the manufacturer and the distributor of cigarettes can indeed be held liable for damages...