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Dracula lives! In the image of late actor Bela Lugosi, of course. A Los Angeles superior court has ruled that even though Lugosi died in 1956, the role of the Transylvanian night person is so thoroughly identified with him that his widow, Hope, 52, and his son, Bela George Lugosi, 34, are entitled to share in the money Universal Pictures has made from the licensing of Dracula games, shirts, masks and other horrors fashioned in the Lugosi image...
...Bell Tolls. Later he told the same story at the Felt Forum, where he produced the book, which turned out to be The Old Man and the Sea. Observed Poet William Jay Smith: "Next time it will be Across the River and Into the Trees." Said Hemingway's widow Mary: "Can you imagine what would happen in Russia if someone got up in a public place and began to talk about how they put writers in insane asylums...
Houton, a 42-year-old widow, makes $115 a week as a housekeeper at City Hall, and brings home $85. Fourteen per cent of this take-home pay ($619) goes to property taxes, while McGovern claims that persons in Milton, Lexington and Concord pay only two per cent of this figure and get better schools...
...Italian law stipulates that the widow of a Prime Minister gets a 50% higher pension than the widow of an ordinary Minister. So one 81-year-old woman is suing the government for a raise in her pension from $258.40 to $387.60 a month. After all, Husband Benito Mussolini was Italy's Fascist Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943 (he was eventually shot by anti-Fascist partisans and then hung by his heels alongside his mistress). When Italian newspapers questioned whether the dictator's widow really deserved more money-plus the return of three Mussolini farms that...
...delegate said that letting women into the organization would be 'like letting in black widow spiders." Barcus said. The national organization offers a job placement service, and Barcus said many male members feared the added job competition if women were admitted...