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Died. Mme. Hellé Bonnet. 61.,chic. Greek-born widow of former (1944-55) French Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, whose World War II Gaullist activities she supported by opening a millinery shop in New York and whose postwar diplomatic success she ably furthered by restoring the dilapidated French embassy as the elegant focus of Washington society; of cancer; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...over the control of Kashmir. Indian defence forces must thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger to a finger of the corpse, then snapping the string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE HIMALAYAS | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...Columbus, Ohio, hometown of that late and great satirist, ground was broken for the James Thurber shopping center and apartment development. Lest his fans think the whole idea was laughable, his widow said solemnly, "It is especially good that his name is connected with something growing-that is what he would appreciate more than anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 30, 1962 | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Dick Powell Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Joan Fontaine stars in a drama about a young widow who fears she is being haunted by her late husband's ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Iguana has the hue of hope. At the end, Shannon stays with the Widow Faulk to help make a go of the hotel. Nonno completes his poem. Though he dies and Hannah must go on alone, she has been given the strength to do it. Yet it is the anguished daily testing of existence itself that Hannah seems fearful of as she utters the last lines of the play. Lifting her eyes toward the heavens, she pleads, "Oh God, can't we stop now? Finally? Please let us! It's so quiet here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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