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John J. King, a Denver oilman and gun fancier, paid Oswald's widow Marina $10,000 for the rifle a year ago, promised an additional $35,000 on delivery, then sued to recover the weapon from federal authorities. In a Dallas courtroom, less than a mile from the stretch of road where the President was killed, U.S. Judge Joe E. Estes last week awarded the Federal Government permanent custody of the assassination rifle and the .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolver with which Oswald killed Policeman J. D. Tippit. Both weapons, said the U.S. Justice Department, will thus be preserved...
After five weeks of arguments, Widow Mary Hemingway had her verdict. She had tried to stop publication of a book by A. E. Hotchner (TIME, Feb. 11), a friend and drinking pal of Ernest's during his last years, describing how the prideful lion sometimes fell into black and irrational moods before eventually shooting himself in 1961. In writing these reminiscences, argued "Miss Mary," Hotchner had used Papa's spoken words, which should be considered his property. But New York State Supreme Court Justice Harry Frank ruled that "spontaneous oral conversation with friends" cannot be considered subject...
Promise Her Anything. Shortly after splashing headlines last year as offscreen lovers in an unsavory divorce action, Leslie Caron and Warren Beatty pooled their talents in a sex farce. Surprisingly enough, it is an amiable, entertaining fiction and nowhere near so scandalous as life itself. As a young French widow with an infant son, Leslie oozes gamine charm in the direction of her boss, Robert Cummings, a child psychiatrist who sucks his thumb under stress. Beatty, in his first light comedy role, shows an unexpected flair for foolishness as Leslie's Greenwich Village neighbor, baby sitter and maker...
Died. Jeannette Kittredge Watson, 82, widow of IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., mother of Tom Jr. and Arthur K., the firm's chairman and vice chairman, who accompanied her husband on business trips, served as a director and gave the staff an enduring sobriquet, "the IBM Family"; in Manhattan...
...each of the four Masses in Eind hoven's Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Dutch Bishop Willem Bekkers mounted the pulpit to tell the parish some startling news: two of their priests were resigning from the ministry, and one of them was planning to marry a widow with five children...