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Among the sillier-sounding premieres will be NBC's . . . Then Came Bronson, with a peripatetic adventurer in love with his motorcycle; and ABC's The Brady Bunch, in which a widower with three sons marries a widow with three daughters. If that sounds like overpopulated plagiarism of My Three Sons, Fred MacMurray, the world's champion sitchcom widower, is getting married this season now that the boys are grown...
Married. Robert Taft Jr., 52, grandson of former President William Howard Taft, son of the late Senator Robert A. Taft and himself an Ohio Congressman; and Katharine Perry, 48, a widow and longtime friend; he for the second time, she for the third; in Indian Hill, Ohio...
...widow living in this house alone. I was so lonesome tonight I had to talk to someone. What bothers me is the loneliness, not talking to anyone...
...book and presumed to be a fragment of a proposed novel, touches on one of Babel's most forceful and most personal themes-the conflicting needs of a Soviet Jew to retain his traditions and be a correct citizen. The Jewess of the title is a country widow whose son Boris, a Bolshevik official, resettles her in a Moscow apartment. He turns the apartment into a club for his comrades, and soon Moscow Cooperative Society sausage is replaced by the old lady's gefilte fish. The story ends abruptly with a neighbor's complaint about the smell...
Running Away. After 18 months, most of the 30 war widows who have participated in the group sessions seem to agree, "Thank God for the whole thing," says Johanna Book, a striking blonde of 32. "I had been running away from my problems " The key to the group's therapeutic effect is the shift it encourages from widow to single woman. The process can take six months or more, and involves a gradual emancipation from the first shock and later depression, self-recrimination, self-pity and feeling of helplessness. With the group serving as a sounding board, the widows...