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...quite what it once was, and she does have her quirks, such as keeping a Manhattan mansion vacant and boarded up on a $6,000,000 plot at Fifth Avenue and 61st Street. No matter. She is Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John D., childless widow of Munitions Heir Marcellus Hartley Dodge, and in doughtier days she played hostess to the world's largest one-day dog show (4,456 entries in 1939) at her 500-acre estate in Madison, N.J. Today, she mothers 40-odd pedigreed German shepherds, retrievers, bloodhounds, beagles and a poodle, and kennel costs-nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 3, 1964 | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...daddy's flammable blonde wife, Carroll Baker. "You wouldn't dare!" she screams. But in a movie like this, a statement like that means let's dance. In no time at all, the lady appears in black chiffon to ask: "How d'ya like my widow's weeds?" As the girl eventually transformed into Rina Marlowe, a doomed Hollywood sex goddess, Actress Baker seems uncertain about which actress living or dead she is not supposed to resemble. Although her widely publicized nude scene has been disnuded, she wears costumes that thinly conceal the loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low & Inside | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...claim it until he simmers down some. One morning Ebsen strides out of the privy with a Monky Ward order book and begins thumbing through the catalogued commodities: wagons, wheat seed, whitewash . . . wives! Off he goes to Kansas City to fetch home for Dullea a scrubbed young widow and her small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unadult Western | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

There was still another potential target. In Washington last week the Warren Commission took further testimony from Oswald's Widow, Marina. The commission had ga hered much information since Marina last testified, and found that she had made some omissions. During a four-hour questioning period, Marina told the commission that on a night in mid-April 1963, her husband walked into a room with a pistol and announced that he was going to kill Richard Nixon. The former Vice President was to speak in Dallas within the next few days. Marina said she dissuaded her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Man Who Wanted To Kill Nixon | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...acre, where weeping beeches hang over a raised level roofing on top of a 60-ft. by 75-ft. exhibition hall. Among the garden's weightier new residents are Herbert Ferber's jangle-in-a-box Homage to Piranesi I and Alexander Calder's creeping Black Widow. More than ever, it is an oasis amidst city din, filled with spouting fountains and bronze genies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: The More Modern Modern | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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