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Jackie called out to a roomful of the clan. "What do you mean, we?" Ethel answered, cutting her cold. Nurse Dallas recalls that the next day Jackie asked her about her own lonely years as a widow and spent the day walking to "all the familiar places that were dear to her and the President." Later Jackie laid her cheek on Joseph Kennedy's hand and whispered, "You'll always know I love you, won't you, Grandpa?" Not long after, Jackie married...
...does not help Lady Bird to accept her new identity as a widow. The term itself makes her recoil: "I don't like that word-it comes from a Sanskrit word meaning empty. That is a harsh thought." She also cannot quite grasp that Lyndon is irrevocably gone. "The children and I find ourselves still speaking of him in the present tense. And when I'm reading a book, I find myself turning down the corner of a page, the way I always did when I wanted to talk to him about that passage. The worst time...
...When the wife of Mathematician Stephen Wiesenfeld, 29, died in childbirth last year and left him with a son, Wiesenfeld concluded that he deserved help as much as any widow. But New Jersey authorities turned down his application for "mother's insurance benefits" under the Social Security Act. Suing on Wiesenfeld's behalf in U.S. District Court, the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union complained that benefits are being denied him only because he is a father and a widower, instead of a mother and a widow. Therefore, the suit alleges...
...Manhattan. After arranging the purchase of Newsweek for one of his best clients, the Post Co., Beebe abandoned his law practice to become chairman of the board in 1961. When Post Publisher Philip Graham died two years later, Beebe assumed control of the firm until Graham's widow and the Post Co.'s principal stockholder, Katharine Meyer Graham, was able to take charge. A shrewd businessman and sensitive employer, Beebe guided the company's expansion into television, book publishing and part ownership of the international Herald Tribune...
...last thing James Bryant Conant wanted at Harvard was a school of journalism. A chemist at heart, Conant wrote his speeches in a manner designed to keep a reporter from finding any headlines in it. Consequently, the windfall bequest left to Harvard in 1936 by Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of The Milwaukee Journal, came as a complete surprise to Harvard's President...