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...outpouring of praise for a former President of the U.S.: on the 80th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's birth, both Pravda and Izvestia ran memorial articles hailing F.D.R. as the champion of Soviet-American understanding and cooperation. Khrushchev dispatched a warm message to Roosevelt's widow, praising F.D.R. for "his efforts on behalf of Soviet-American friendship." A Russian delegation appeared at Hyde Park to lay a wreath on F.D.R.'s grave, and Nina Khrushchev joined U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and 250 Russians at a Moscow memorial ceremony dominated by a portrait of the late President...
Married. Jim Jordan, 64, radio's Fibber McGee, for 21 years (1935-56) the incorrigible comic blowhard of 79 Wistful Vista; and Mrs. Gretchen Stewart, 52, widow of Dialect Comedian Yogi Yorgenson; both for the second time (Jordan's first wife Marian, who was also Fibber McGee's Molly, died last year after 43 years of marriage); in Honolulu...
Died. Berthe-Eugénie-Alphonsine Hardon Pétain, 84, stoic widow of France's Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain; after a long illness; in Paris. Married to Pétain at the height of his World War I glory as the defender of Verdun, Mme. Pétain dutifully shared his World War II ignominy as chief of the puppet Vichy regime, after his postwar sentence for treason followed him to the tiny Ile d'Yeu, where she was his only visitor during six years of solitary confinement, and upon his death in 1951 persuaded...
...Majority of One. A pleasant geriatric romance between a middle-aged Japanese textile tycoon (Alec Guinness) and a nice Jewish widow (Rosalind Russell) from New York City, with Lower-East-Side dishes of Jewish humor...
...cost him more than $10,000 to purchase, ship, and install it in the new cinder-block and brick annex that he built for it behind his house. The work of wiring, releathering, tuning, and voicing took unnumbered hours. Sighs Young's wife: "I'm a Wurlitzer widow...