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Ethel Skakel Kennedy, L.H.D., widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. You have shown that love is not lessened but deepened by tragic loss...
This week in Washington, hundreds of friends will attend a memorial Mass for Bobby. His widow Ethel and her eleven children will be hosts at a buffet for the Senator's old friends at the Hickory Hill estate. The District of Columbia stadium will be renamed for Robert F. Kennedy, as will ski slopes, chapels, high schools and bridges around the U.S. A game preserve in far away Tanzania will also be dedicated in his name. Congress has authorized $750,000 to build an access road and other improvements at his Arlington grave site. In the last year, five...
Died. Marion Morehouse Cummings, 63, widow of poet E. E. Cummings, who at the time of her marriage in 1933 was one of fashion's top mannequins; of cancer; in Manhattan. Edward Steichen called her one of the "greatest fashion models" he had ever photographed, and Cecil Beaton commented that she "was at home in the grandest circumstances." She also published a book of her own pictures, Adventures in Value, in 1962, and at her death was planning a book of portraits of her husband and their friends...
Vladimir, acquaintances remember, was handsome, courtly, occasionally terribly amusing at parties. It was not for Nabokov, though, to commit the hilarious gaffes of his comic creation, the emigre Professor Timofey Pnin. Years of having to conform with dignity as an outsider had marked his manner. Mrs. Yvor Winters, widow of the critic, recalls that Nabokov would never kiss a woman's hand, as many other refugees did. "If I were in Russia," he once confided to her, "I would kiss your hand...
Died. Mrs. John Foster Dulles, 77, widow of the late Secretary of State, whose devotion to her husband's career and acceptance of public life ("I never know whom my husband will bring to breakfast, lunch or dinner, but it's sure to be someone interesting") exemplified the best characteristics of a Washington wife; in Washington...