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Died. Nancy Pigott Kefauver, 56, widow of Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A vivacious Scottish-born artist and dress designer, she traveled with her husband all through his 24-year political career, pumping thousands of hands as tirelessly as he, prompting Estes to call her "my secret weapon." After his death in 1963, she remained in Washington as art consultant to the State Department, decorating the walls of U.S. embassies around the world with American paintings...
Died. Margaret P. Swope, 77, widow of onetime New York World Editor Herbert Bayard Swope and quick-witted hostess to the wittiest writers, sportsmen and politicians of her time; after a long illness; in New York. For almost three decades she presided over a dazzling salon as she and her husband mixed repartee and reason with such cronies as Al Smith, Harpo Marx, Gene Tunney, Ethel Barrymore, Bernard Baruch and Dorothy Parker, often at their Long Island mansion, which F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized as the setting for The Great Gatsby...
Though she hardly thought so during the years she was married to him, Marina Oswald now figures that everything Assassin Lee Oswald ever touched has turned to gold. Oswald's Russian-born widow, 25, now married to Texas Saloonkeeper Kenneth Porter, is suing the U.S. Government for $500,000 in payment for Lee's confiscated personal effects-a treasure trove including old Christmas cards, Russian maps of Moscow and Minsk, his Marine Corps discharge and an Oct. 20, 1963 copy of the Worker that Marina thinks collectors would dearly love to own. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Mighell conceded...
...Poets' Theatre is a semi-professional group dedicated to the production of original plays. It was reopened last year by a committee including William Alfred, professor of English, and Mary Manning (widow of the late Mark deWolfe Howe) after closing in 1958 because of a fire hazard in its old Palmer Street home...
Daphne is a brief encounter between two neurotically maimed misfits. In Act I, they kiss; in Act II, they tell. As the desolate widow of a movie star, Sandy is committing slow alcoholic suicide, shot by shot, and is barred from her young son as an unfit mother. The man (William Daniels) has an even more guilt-ridden tale. In the driveway to his home, he ran over his own child on the boy's fifth birthday, and has been fleeing from the memory ever since...