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After Erickson's death in 1936. his widow's Murray Hill home in Manhattan was regularly visited by museum directors from all over the U.S., who hoped that some flattery at tea might win for their galleries a choice bequest in Mrs. Erickson's will. But most of the paintings were left to her in trust, and Anna Erickson decided that her own estate should be divided into 90 parts, to accommodate all the heirs (relatives, friends and charities), and that meant that it had to be liquidated. She died last Feb. 7 of a stroke; Parke...
...woman, especially a mother of bright teenagers, can afford to be only a dedicated mother, homemaker and wife. I happen to be a widow, and unless I supplement my income, my children could not even finish school. My children expect me to know a lot of answers; they expect me to talk to their teachers intelligently; they constantly challenge my knowledge, not only of the past but of the present. Today I feel that I am also a person in my own right because I try to keep a step ahead of my children...
From 1789 to 1797, Madison served in the House of Representatives that he had helped set up, found time to marry a buxom widow named Dolley Todd, and, with honors enough for any bookish man, retired to Virginia to lead the life of a gentleman farmer. But when Thomas Jefferson became President in 1801, he summoned his good friend Madison to become his Secretary of State. And before Jefferson left the presidency in 1809, he successfully named Madison as his successor...
...danger of ending on one. A veteran of Douglas and Lockheed, John Knudsen Northrop had designed the Lockheed Vega used by Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart, and in 1939 he set up his own company. World War II made it big-the Northrop-designed P-61 Black Widow gained fame as the first genuine night fighter, and Northrop rolled them out in droves. Peacetime threatened to kill the company...
...Editor Davis points out. Hawkins was far less sentimental than Boswell about Johnson's marriage, at 25, to a well-to-do widow almost twice his age. Boswell paints it as a love match; Hawkins accepts without disapproval the more credible view that it was a marriage of convenience. The chilling dispassion with which Hawkins could dissect a friend's motives is apparent in his remarks on the widow's death. Johnson, he reports, showed an inconsolable sorrow, and a return to his lifelong severe melancholy; yet, "I have often been inclined to think that if this...