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Others did not fare so well. Stalin had little respect for Nadezhda Konstanti-novna Krupskaya and Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Lenin's widow and sister, recalls Khrushchev. He used to say that he did not think either of these women was making a positive contribution to the party's struggle. "After Stalin's death we found an envelope in a secret compartment, and inside the envelope was a note written in Lenin's hand. Lenin accused Stalin of having insulted Nadezhda Kon-stantinovna. Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin] demanded that Stalin apologize; otherwise Lenin would no longer consider Stalin...
General LeMay's woman's town includes some potent and highly motivated females. Elegant Widow Katharine Graham, 63, presides with couturiered cool and a few well-chosen four-letter words over a communications realm that includes the Washington Post, Newsweek and three TV stations. An invitation to dinner at her handsome Georgetown house is a prize second only to dinner at the White House, and her guest list is guaranteed to be more stimulating. At a party she threw to celebrate Columnist Joseph Alsop's 60th birthday, 140 guests sat down to dine under a tent two stories high...
Amid the lavish Orientalia of Anna Chennault's penthouse at Watergate, the talk is hearty, hawkish and very Republican indeed. Mrs. Chennault, the petite Chinese-born widow of General Claire Chennault of the World War II Flying Tigers, was a major money raiser for Nixon's 1968 campaign, and the hard core of her guest list includes some of the top members of the Administration. Her parties are also frequently attended by visitors from Asia, where her connections are said to be excellent?particularly in Saigon. Just before Nixon's election, in fact, she was accused of trying to sabotage...
...woman they name as Amelia is Mrs. Guy Bolam, widow of a businessman and now living in Monroe Township, N.J. She emerged long enough last week to ridicule the book as a "poorly documented hoax." Hoax or not, the people's appetite for myth and mystery seems insatiable. Before her press conference was over, the woman from New Jersey had convinced many she was not Amelia Earhart. But some wondered whether she was really Mrs. Guy Bolam, either...
...captain stationed in Brest, was more difficult to locate. As a result, Pompidou was not notified until 4 a.m., and it was not until 17½ hours after his mentor's death that he finally went on television. "General de Gaulle is dead," he said. "France is a widow...