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...slapdash way, Woman is an eccentric comic parody of King Lear. Mrs. Lord is a solid-gold widow of 75, with nothing on her Bostonian brain but freshly dyed hair and a yen for yachts. Lear courts catastrophe when he parts with his realm; Mrs. Lord gets into trouble when her daughters fear that she will squander her fortune on herself. Lear is cast out on the storm-blasted heath and loses his mind; Mrs. Lord is kidnaped after a Boston Symphony concert and railroaded to a loony...
...glasses. The guests-from Boston grandes dames to college boys-gaped openly at Jackie, but she seemed unperturbed. Dinner was surprisingly good for such an affair: lobster, veal, braised endive and soufflé glacé. Jackie sat serenely through the speeches, then waltzed to the Blue Danube, The Merry Widow and Tales from the Vienna Woods, played by the Boston Pops Orchestra. Her first card dance was with Francis W. Hatch, chairman of the symphony trustees. She also danced once to Ruby Newman's music with Massachusetts' Republican Governor John Volpe...
National remorse over the Kennedy assassination helped to make Mrs. J. D. Tippit the best cared-for policeman's widow in U.S. history. After the President's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot Patrolman Tippit in Dallas, Mrs. Tippit received $650,000 from 40,000 donors across the nation.* Last year 88 other U.S. policemen were killed in the line of duty. What of their widows and children...
...idea can be traced to Detroit Car Dealer William M. Packer, who in 1950 dunned 100 friends for $100 apiece to aid the widow and newborn child of a murdered rookie patrolman. That started what is now a 453-member Detroit Hundred Club, with annual dues of $150 and a treasury of more than $300,000. So far, the club has given 77 widows and their children $321,000 for everything from unpaid mortgages to scholarships and cash for unpaid bills. It covers Michigan state troopers as well as policemen and firemen in Detroit and 50 nearby communities...
...York and Orlando, Fla., though not yet in Dallas. Last month it was taken to Phoenix by a newly arrived charter member of the Detroit club. Just eight days after 100 citizens started the Phoenix Hundred Club, it handed its first $1,000 check to Mrs. Herman Nofs, widow of a 71-year-old deputy marshal who was murdered by his own gun in a scuffle with teen-age burglars in nearby Youngstown, Ariz. Deputy Nofs's death stirred such a response that the Phoenix Club may now increase membership to 350 and already has plans to pay life...