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Communist Cells. Though the official campaign lasted only a month, the 54-year-old widow toured 120 constituencies and addressed 250 rallies. At every stop, she denounced Senanayake and his United National Party for cutting every citizen's weekly free-rice ration from four to two pounds, for boosting food prices 500%, for trebling unemployment and for causing a 16% increase in the cost of living over the past two years...
WILSON COLLEGE Walter Cronkite, L.H.D., TV journalist. Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower, L.H.D., widow of President Dwight David Eisenhower...
...finer gift; moreover, the works, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, filled in a period where the de Young's own collection was weak. But museum officials were perhaps the least bit embarrassed too-about the personality of the donor. She happens to be the widow and custodian of the estate of T. Edward Hanley, the distinguished art collector and industrialist, who died last year at the age of 75. But she is also the most uninhibited woman to come out of Hungary since Zsa Zsa Gabor...
Bourgeois Vices. As the book opens, St. Joseph has chosen first to strand Shirley in Europe, a young widow with a small income and no skills, then to marry her into a family of French bourgeois vices. Philippe, Philippe's mother, Philippe's sister are all picayune, prosy, avaricious, suspicious, xenophobic, obsessed with pinching their pennies and palping their livers. They are only part of a larger Paris, drawn with fearful and totally remorseless accuracy, which becomes a tawdry circle of hell. The French whom Shirley meets are all impossibly rude: "We wanted to give you beans...
Died. Billie Burke, 85, widow of Florenz Ziegfeld, herself a renowned stage and screen star; in Los Angeles. Red-haired and blue-eyed, she reigned as a Broadway beauty through the early 1900s, drawing homage from Mark Twain and Enrico Caruso before capturing Flo Ziegfeld as her husband. Her fame came from her skill as a comedienne in the years after 1930, when she appeared as a flibbertigibbet in scores of plays (Her Master's Voice, Mrs. January and Mr. X) and movies (Topper, The Wizard of Oz, Hi Diddle Diddle). "Oh," she once wrote, "that sad and bewildering...