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Brown readily allows that the Lazarus account is a dramatic embellishment by John of an event that is nonetheless in some way historical. In the Gospels there are other instances of Jesus raising a dead person (the son of the widow of Nain in Luke), and Brown suggests that John may have transposed a similar event to the end of Christ's ministry to symbolize in one act the audacity of his miracles...
...Died. Millicent V. Hearst, 92, widow of legendary Press Lord William Randolph Hearst Sr.; in Manhattan. A former chorine, Mrs. Hearst was estranged from her husband for more than three decades before his death in 1951, dividing her time among society functions, charity and travel...
...husband died not too long after being gassed in World War I, and Lady spent the rest of her days being a rich, eccentric widow. Late in her life she won the New England regional "forlorn cry" award, popular-novel division: "Oh, I am a vain and foolish woman. Yes, foolish. I have wanted the esteem of the world, and why? Tell me, for what...
There's nothing wrong with this, except that Greene supposedly wrote the book for the common reader. One of the few obligations he claims a writer has to society is "of not robbing the poor, the blind, the widow or the orphan...if we do less than these we are so much the less human beings and therefore so much less likely to be artists." In this deluxe coffee-table edition he has certainly robbed the poor, he has wasted paper, and most disgraceful of all, he's even robbed the blind, who cannot see his profusely illustrated money-maker...
...important as the growth in the number of women candidates is the quality of their credentials. Of the six new women members of the U.S. House, for example, only one, Marilyn Lloyd, 44, of Tennessee, is a widow who was chosen to replace her husband on the ticket. The other five: Democrat Helen Stevenson Meyner, 46, wife of former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner, who has been politically active since her husband left office in 1962; Republican Millicent Fenwick, 64, who gave up her post as director of the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress...