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Actually, says Tourist Bureau Chairman Louis Jeanson, 74, who, together with the local antique dealer, is in charge of the campaign, most of those hinky-dinky ditties about her were untrue. She was not a mademoiselle at all, but a tall, slim widow named Marie Lecoq who worked as a waitress at the Café de la Paix. Furthermore, during the four years that British and Commonwealth troops were stationed in Armentières, she was more virtuous than many of her unsung sisters. The ditty got its start, in fact, when she roundly slapped a British officer who tried...
Anderson's widow sued Russell-eventually he settled out of court for $15,000-and then both she and Russell sued G.M. They also brought suit against the local Corvair dealer and the U.S. Rubber Corp., which had manufactured the car's tires. Against G.M., they made two charges: that the Corvair's doors and door handles were too weak to withstand the pressure of a rollover, and that because of a poorly designed rear axle, the rear wheels tended to tuck in and lose all traction in a swerve...
Died. Amelie Thyssen, 87, widow of German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen and heiress, along with her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, to his giant Ruhr Valley coal and steel complex, which was confiscated by the Nazis when the Thyssens fled the Third Reich in 1939 and now worth an estimated $1 billion; of complications following a fall; near Straubing, Germany...
Died. Lucie Valore Utrillo, 87, widow of famed Parisian Impressionist Maurice Utrillo, an ambitious woman who married the aging, alcoholic painter in 1935, shut him up in a suburban home, turned away his friends, curtailed his output to 20 paintings a year, allowed none to be sold until they had reached a price high enough to suit her (around $25,000 at his death in 1955); of heart attack; in Paris...
...airtight: "The testimony I have heard and read does not meet the evidence requirements." Judge DuVal duly freed the defendants on $50,000 bonds. While Mel discreetly headed for Atlanta, Candace emerged from jail as other inmates showered her with hearty obscenities. Smiling and blowing kisses, the irrepressible widow jounced off to Houston. It promises to be some trial...