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...boat from the continent, his wife having died on the voyage, Christian lands a job with the mortician who buries her. The mortician is impressed by Christian's good looks. On one of his first assignments for the funeral parlor, Christian is willingly seduced by Fanny Sourpuss, the young widow of an old multimillionaire garment manufacturer. Sued by the widow of a rich corpse that Christian has butchered in the embalming, he wins the suit by charming judge and jury. Women, including cafeteria acquaintances and wives of coworkers, fall at his feet. Christian is the parody of the fairy tale...
Besides being a revolutionary, Burr was a New York lawyer, and his ideas on education, especially for women, were far ahead of his time. Yet enlightened views did not stop him, at age 77, from marrying a rich widow and selling her assets under property laws that had been written for and by husbands. Burr always had his way with women. In addition to fathering one legitimate, beautiful and brilliant daughter, he has been credited with numerous "foundlings." Though there is no evidence, it was even whispered that the eighth President, Martin Van Buren, was an adulterous plum...
...always had trouble finding someone to care for their son Pascal, now six. The isolated, rustic life was too quiet for young women. In the small town of Bohin, 125 miles away, a widow named Edmee Blin, 72 but active, found herself "absolutely alone on this earth." Her only son was dead, and she desperately needed companionship...
Vigorena's charges seemed to be bolstered by Washington's lack of concern at Allende's fall. President Nixon sent no message of condolence to Allende's widow-a customary gesture on the death of an elected head of state. Nor did the Administration lament the demise of the democratically elected government in Chile. "We will have to work with the generals," said a State Department spokesman, "and it makes no sense to issue some moral statement about democracy." On top of all that, world suspicions were aroused by the department's admissions that...
Although West obviously harbors a special regard for the Kennedys, their portraits seem less revealing than the others, perhaps because the public heard so much about Camelot when it was in flower. Still, few readers will forget Jacqueline Kennedy after the President's funeral: the stunned widow, about to leave the White House, pleadingly questioned West, "My children are good children, aren't they? They're not too spoiled...