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...Preble Stravers in Bethesda, Md. Two days after the Stravers left on vacation, another family moved into their house, drove about in their car and frolicked on the front lawn with the pets. Meanwhile, residents in Clearwater, Fla., were equally startled. Shortly after they saw Mrs. Jess Thacker (a widow) and her three children pile into her car with suitcases, another family arrived and made themselves at home...
Unready Draft. Kazantzakis died eight years ago at 74. His heirs have spent the intervening years extending his legend with carefully doled out translations of unpublished texts. Report to Greco-is the latest entry in the lengthy procession, which is by no means over: his widow Helen and his friend Kimon Friar, who spent four years translating Kazantzakis' Odyssey, are both engaged in writing biographies. Neither can do the man, or the legend, more service than this awkward, graceless but powerful personal testament...
Barricaded in her home at 17 Hefferan St. is Mrs. Mary Casey, 48, a widow, who says she has been paying rent to her mother, Mrs. Eunice Hollum, 70, also a widow, at 152 North Harvard St. Mrs. Casey has boarded up the front and rear doors of her home and is being supplied with food by friends who pass it through the windows...
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. In Allan Lewis' comedy, Anne Baxter is a widow who falls in love with a man from the State Department (Gene Raymond). To make things cozier, her daughter is in love with his son. Dennis, Mass.; Ivoryton, Conn.; Wineland, Ont.; Ogunquit, Me.; Skowhegan...
...suits (fee: up to 50% of the judgment) that the delegates spent eight hours a day buying such trial props as plastic skeletons and listening to such maestros as Melvin Belli, who lovingly lectured on his tactics in winning a $215,000 judgment for a Navy pilot's widow against the manufacturer of a helicopter that crashed during military operations...