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Milestones are milestones, but this is incredible. Confederate General James Longstreet must have been a true cradle robber to leave a widow [May 11] who lived to see the war centennial...
Longstreet married Helen Dortch in 1897, when he was 76 and she was 34. They met at Brenau College in Gainesville, Ga., where she was a classmate of his daughter's. The General died in 1904, and his widow survived him by 58 years...
European sympathizers from Algeria. But there was also left-wing Senator François Mitterand, the widow of famed Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, and two officers still on active service who saluted Salan...
Limp with exhaustion when he finally withdrew backstage, Janis was congratulated by Prokofiev's widow. Said Tchaikovsky Prizewinner Vladimir Ashkenazy: "I have never heard Prokofiev played so brilliantly." As for the fans waiting for autographs at the stage door, they seemed to be struck by Janis' remarkable resemblance to the young Chopin, and by the fact, as one of them put it, that "one can tell by his face that he suffers while he plays...
Died. Helen Dortch Longstreet. 99, spry widow of Confederate General James Longstreet, a Georgia belle who at 80 became a World War II "Riveting Rosie"; of a heart attack; in Georgia...