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Foster, a poor boy from Boston, had everything to do with Reed. He went to Harvard and hated it. Foster in 1911 became the first president of Reed, which had been founded with $1,500,000 left by the widow of Simeon G. Reed (no kin of John), a Columbia River shipping magnate. Foster deliberately made Reed the informal, freewheeling opposite of then snooty, monolithic Harvard...
Divorced. By Deborah Loew, 30, widow of Cinemactor Tyrone Power: Third Husband Arthur M. Loew Jr., 37, nightclub-hopping movie scion; on grounds of mental cruelty; after three years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...visits by the San Diego people became a regular thing. Other doctors offered to help; so did nurses. Pharmacists donated drugs, and a doctor's widow volunteered her husband's instruments and examining-room equipment. Today, there are 45 members of San Diego's Flying Samaritans, as they call themselves. El Rosario's villagers call them "flying angels." Donating their time, talents and money (aviation fuel costs as much as $60 a trip per plane), they fly down to the village every two weeks, spend a day and a half treating the sick and performing needed...
...Loretta Young Show (CBS), about a widow and her seven sickening children, has a firm hold on its air time until late winter, when it will be dropped...
...what will become of their rivalry nobody is likely to know for years. Hemingway had no one dominant fan in life. After his death, a stampede of scholars for the right to use his private papers might have been expected. But the great plum was swiftly awarded by his widow to Princeton's Carlos Baker. As sure as footnotes are footnotes, Baker, now at work on a definitive biography, will be "the Hemingway...