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...aunt, a widow with six kids of her own, took young Mickey and his three siblings in. She supported them by running a boarding house at the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Street, the location of the new Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, Democratic Party power hostess, widow of multimillionaire Averell, and currently U.S. Ambassador to France, has always been fiercely protective of her wealth -- every last dollar, every last dime. Now, money is at the heart of a legal battle between Harriman and Averell's descendants by his first marriage -- two daughters, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. The scions of the late Governor charge that his second wife, who inherited most of his estimated $65 million legacy, has wasted the $30 million of their trust funds on ill-advised investments, leaving them with a relatively paltry...
...biography of Harriman by TIME's Christopher Ogden, she staged Averell's 1986 funeral at the gravesite where his father, mother, sister and first wife had been interred. What most of the mourners did not know is that Averell was not buried there that day. After the ceremony, the widow had his body moved and refrigerated while another site was prepared where she and her husband could eventually be buried side by side...
...Herman, the show has all the snap and style one remembers from Gower Champion's original production, which won a record 10 Tony Awards (Channing beat out Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl). Exceptfor its confused and too hasty resolution, Michael Stewart's book -- about a meddlesome, matchmaking widow -- craftily melds song and dance. Corny? Sure, but also funny, and these days that's a rarity. Most important, Herman's infectious, toe-tapping score remains among the most melodious ever written for a musical...
...superior education and health system handed down to their children, to leave is to break faith with the revolution. "Tell my son I'm fine," says Teodomira Rodriguez, standing in the doorway of her small pensioner's apartment in the Vedado section of Havana. The 62-year-old widow said goodbye to her two sons last month: Rafael, 34, died at sea; Pedro, 32, survived but was hospitalized in Miami with dehydration and blisters after six days afloat. "They left because of the economic problems," she says...