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...adjourn permanently. In a Shoreham Hotel suite, Senate Chaplain Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris married Washington's Warren G. Magnuson, 59, one of the capital's most sociable eligibles since shortly after his first marriage ended in divorce in 1935, to Mrs. Jermaine Peralta, 41, a Seattle widow. The 20 guests included Lyndon and Lady Bird, but though the bride looked properly serene, those wedding bells nearly broke up poor old Maggie...
...Norfolk, Va., the estate of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who died in April at 84, was appraised at $2,131,941.89, bequeathed to his widow, Jean Faircloth MacArthur. Composed primarily of securities, it included 2,205 shares of G.M. (worth $180,258.75), Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority and Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel bonds (together worth $291,007), and 1,903 shares ($34,254) in Sperry Rand Corp., whose chairman he had been since...
...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW by John Cheever. 275 pages. Harper...
...COFO workers are not alone when the Klan rides by. A 65-year old widow, who lives across from the office, has appointed herself a one-woman protection squad for "my boys," as she calls the workers. When the Klansmen approach, she leaves her rocker on the porch, goes inside, loads her rifle and carries it back to her rocker. "Don't you hurt my boys," she warns the Klansmen...
...rifle-packing widow is an exception. Apathy and fear keep most Neshoba Negroes from such open militance. One girl told a COFO field secretary that she liked to sit in the segregated section of the local movie theater. Only about 30 of the 1500 Negroes in Philadelphia show up at "mass meetings." And when COFO workers attempted for the first time to distribute two and one-half tons of food and clothing sent from Cleveland, Ohio, they found few takers...