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...year after his death in 1968, his widow died. To the surprise of the art world, she bequeathed to the Whitney a vast new collection of Hoppers: some 2,000 paintings, watercolors, drawings and etchings that the painter had kept more or less private for years. Some were not dated, a few were not signed. It has taken over a year to sort and catalogue the works. The 157 pieces now on view at the museum are a remarkably complete and interesting study collection of the artist...
Engaged. W. Averell Harriman, 79, negotiator with Communist powers, high-ranking Government official for four Democratic Administrations, and former Governor of New York; and Pamela Hayward, 51, British widow of Producer Leland Hayward and mother of Winston Churchill II by her earlier marriage to Sir Winston's son Randolph. It will be the third marriage for both...
...sources last week. It appears that Evita's body arrived in Milan on May 17, 1957, accompanied by Giuseppina Airoldi, a lay sister of the Company of St. Paul. Signora Airoldi believed the body to be that of an Italian woman who had died in Argentina-Maria Maggi, widow of Luigi De Magistris. The body was buried in Lot 86, Garden 41, in Milan's Musocco Cemetery...
Three days later, the American was buried by a bicycle dealer. Last year, after the dealer died, his widow talked about the incident to a local newspaperman. Before long, many survivors of the bomb came forward with similar stories. Their testimony firmly establishes that among the 200,000 victims of the holocaust, which struck 26 years ago this week, as many as 23 may have been Americans...
...Long Boy's favorites is to arrive in a small town, buy up a supply of white morocco-bound Bibles and check newspaper obituaries for the name of a new widow in a good neighborhood. Having affixed the lady's name on the Bible cover in gold leaf, he sends Addie up to her door. The Good Book, of course, is a C.O.D. present ordered by the deceased. It is rare that the mourning widow does not cry "tears big as horse turds" while handing over...