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Vera Stravinsky, Igor's widow, on celebrities: "People ask me about famous people. I always say I knew only...
...children to special schools. Recent denunciations of Chiang Ching, Mao's now disgraced widow, have emphasized her sybaritic tastes: she had two villas in Peking's Summer Palace, feasted on exotic birds' nests for days at a time, and dressed her Pekingese puppies in vests made of costly imported fabrics...
...Widow Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 52, waited for word at the family estate...
When Chicago Candy Tycoon Frank Brach died in 1970 at the age of 80, he left $21 million to his third wife, Helen, a former Miami country club hostess who had married him 18 years earlier. Thereafter, the 58-year-old widow became a recluse, living in a stone mansion on seven wooded acres in suburban Glenview. She consulted a fortuneteller by phone almost daily and produced a drawerful of psychic writings while in a trance-like state. Suspicious of most people, Mrs. Brach preferred the companionship of her nine thoroughbred horses and three mongrel dogs. She seemed close...
Leakey, a small, spunky woman of 64, is the widow of the famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, who died in 1972. Some four decades ago, when she and Louis were beginning their quest for the origins of man, they worked for a time in a remote area of northern Tanzania called Laetolil?the site of her latest find. But after unearthing nothing more than a few distinctly non-manlike animal remains, they moved on to Olduvai Gorge, 25 miles to the north, where their fossil discoveries were to push back man's lineage by at least a million years...