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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Yuki Kato Morgan, 81, widow of wealthy George Morgan, a beautiful Japanese Geisha girl who withstood the pleas of young Morgan (a nephew of J. P. Sr.) for nearly two years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...foundation, established in the will of Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, administers the yearly Nieman fellowships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Louis Lyons to Retire in June '64 After 25 Years as Nieman Curator | 5/14/1963 | See Source »

Chinese in the Tub. To older Britons, Ogilvy's robust charm and self-assurance recall Alexandra's father, the Duke of Kent, who was killed in a wartime plane crash when she was five. Left with a lessthan-princely income, the duke's widow, handsome, Greek-born Princess Marina, raised her children modestly. "Puddy," as her daughter is still known to intimates, was the first royal princess to attend boarding school, later took up nursing at a children's hospital. The slim, green-eyed Maid of Kent tickled Londoners by wearing her mother's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Bra ', Bonny Bride And a Fortune Fair | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Uncle Sam stands to become principal beneficiary of a $43,954,062 estate left by Mrs. Lillian Timken, widow of a co-founder of the Timken Roller Bearing Co. Sequestered among art treasures in her Fifth Avenue apartment until she died in 1959 at the age of 78, the wealthy recluse gave her paintings (among them a Goya, two Rembrandts, two Titians and a Rubens) to three U.S. museums, intended her principal assets (stocks and bonds) for her heirs. But she failed to set up the proper trusts and other tax-reducing gimmicks, and so an appraisal filed in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 26, 1963 | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...wrote his own five-foot shelf of divine revelations. In addition, Bahai (Persian for "follower of Baha'u'llah") broad-mindedly welcomes the wisdom of all the great religious teachers, from Moses to Christ to Mohammed to Buddha. "We love all religions," says Canadian-born Ruhiyyih Rabbani, widow of Baha'u'llah's great-grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: We Love All Religions | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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