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...result is that the party, which has a strong Stalinist tradition, has itself split into pro-Moscow and pro-Czechoslovak factions. After bitter quarrels over policy, the symbolic leader of the hard-line faction last week quit the party. She is Madame Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, the 58-year-old widow of the party's longtime leader, Maurice Thorez, sometimes known in party circles as "the Hag" because of her terrible temper. At the same time, the party, which is led by Secretary General Waldeck Rochet, who in recent years has become a moderate, both reaffirmed its censure of Soviet...
Many M.L.A. editors insist their plodding, comma-splicing spadework is absolutely necessary because the texts of any American classics have been hopelessly corrupted. Typesetters were often careless; authors read proofs badly; later editors bowdlerized on grounds of prudence. Nathaniel Hawthorne's widow, for example, was an eccentric who diligently excised all words that offended her from his manuscript notebooks before she let them be published...
...Melbourne, Australia, Lawrence Edward Hannell, a 21-year-old laborer on trial for the fatal stabbing of a 77-year-old widow, faced a maximum sentence of death. Hannell had earlier pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Dr. Allen A. Bartholomew, Psychiatric Superintendent of Melbourne's Pentridge Prison, testified that he had examined Hannell, found him to be an XYY. The imbalance, coupled with mental retardation, an aberrant brainwave pattern and evidence of neurological disorder, led Bartholomew to conclude that when Hannell killed the widow, "he did not know that what he was doing was wrong." After deliberating...
Married. Laurence Harvey, 40, the movies' handsome heel (Room at the Top, Darling); and Joan Cohn, 54, widow of Cinemogul Harry Cohn, ex-wife of Shoe Manufacturer Harry Karl, and Laurence's constant companion for the past eight years; he for the second time (he was divorced by British Actress Margaret Leighton in 1961), she for the third; in Nassau...
...show's book, establishes Niko quickly in the second scene and never allows him to fade from view after that. (As in his book for Fiddler, Stein never lets any character slip through his fingers.) When Niko finally forgets pretense, allowing himself to fall in love with the beautiful widow (played with quiet grace by Carmen Alvarez), the transformation is thrilling, as Stein and Cunningham have created someone worth caring about...