Word: widowing
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...Samara owners, distant relatives of the sister of the artist's widow, "just wanted to get rid of it," says another art historian who also saw the painting in Samara. For years, they had hidden it from bandits-at one point in a kgb safe, at another in a crate of potatoes. They were convinced that whoever kept the painting met with misfortune, and with good reason: the young man who brought the canvas to the bank disappeared for days afterward only to resurface in a battered, confused state, the victim of a shakedown by racketeers...
...Quinn asks colleagues whether Leah Rabin, widow of the slain Israeli Prime Minister, might help. Avner Azulay, Rich's point man in Israel, responds, "Not a bad idea. The problem is how do we contact her? She died last November...
...DIED. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, 94, author and widow of high-flying pioneer Charles Lindbergh; in Passumpsic, Vermont. Five volumes of best-selling diaries and 21 books of prose and poetry won Morrow Lindbergh fame in her own right, but her marriage to the man who completed the first transatlantic solo flight put the shy Smith College graduate in the public eye. "The first couple of the skies," as they were known, flew record-breaking trips across Latin America and Asia. But the 1932 kidnapping and death of their baby Charlie ended the idyll. Moreover, the couple's isolationist statements before...
DIED. EDDIE PARKER, 69, nimble, self-taught pool shark who earned the nickname "Fast Eddie" in high school and claimed to have inspired Walter Tevis' book and screenplay The Hustler (Tevis' widow disagrees); of an apparent heart attack; at the U.S. Classic Billiard Eight-Ball Showdown in South Padre Island, Texas. He was a money player but, he avowed, an honest one who never hustled...
DIED. DALE EVANS, 88, dulcet-voiced cowgirl, devoted humanitarian, author of more than 20 books and widow of Roy ("King of the Cowboys") Rogers; in Apple Valley, Calif. Evans' boss caught her singing while she worked--as a stenographer at a Dallas insurance company--and prodded her to appear on a company-sponsored radio program. Not long after, she was cast in her first of 28 films with Rogers, beginning a long reign as the radiant "Queen of the West." Despite her immense popularity, she was often outbilled by her husband's horse, Trigger, which co-starred in 90-plus...