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...Theatre (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Irene Dunne as a widow who runs for political office in "Go Fight City Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 26, 1962 | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 26, 1962 | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Above the town, a 60-year-old widow named Zoila Cristina Angel watched the huayco's passage. "I saw it sweep by like a river, carrying away one farmer after another. Voices called 'Run! Run!' but I could not run. I could not move. I could not speak. I just looked at that awful thing that came rushing at us like the end of the world.'' Luckily it passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Carpet of Death | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Cleveland traces its Diana back to 1796, when Amsterdam Widow Elizabeth Hooft sold it. The painting was authenticated in 1959 by the late Dr. Ludwig Burchard. then the greatest living Rubens expert, who flatly discounted rumors that it was really the work of Rubens' assistant, Frans Snyders. Burchard. pointing out the dog that Diana caresses, said that Snyders "could never have created on his own an animal so highly expressive both in movement and feeling." The birds in the background, the flowers in the foreground, the "freshness and luminous color," he concluded, stamped it an early Rubens original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Would Rubens Paint a Bird? | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...great 19th century soldier-aristocrats by his admiring great-great-grandson, the present marquess. Henry William Paget, Lord Anglesey, spent 20 years in the House of Commons without making a single speech. He had much more to say to the ladies, among them the beautiful Duchess of Rutland, a widow twelve years his senior. Annoyed one night that he was separated from the duchess, Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk her off to a nearby hayloft. The war with Napoleon was just what Paget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Jan. 5, 1962 | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

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