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Encouraged, the accountant takes a giant step: he asks a young widow (Maria Schell) to go out with him. They get along just fine. She asks him to dinner at her house. When he arrives, the door is opened by her ten-year-old daughter. To his surprise and relief, the hero feels like a father to the girl, and he soon begins to feel like a husband to her mother. Then a scandal scribbler reveals his past. He loses his job, the woman he loves, his will to live. "I can't go on!" he sobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Compulsion & Salvation | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...Goes to College (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. Broadway's A Majority of One team, Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, in a new series about a matronly widow and a Cambridge University exchange professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 6, 1961 | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...kind of imperial virgin. Full of fun and laughter, with a clear eye for the absurd, Marion called him Pops, and liked to run her fingers through his sterling-silver hair. She would have become his wife as well, but Hearst's wife (and still surviving widow) Millicent, herself a former chorine, steadily denied Hearst his request for a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pop's Girl | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...reads like the old Post. The fiction is the same tug-at-the-heartstrings stuff. Nonfiction will be "weeks, months, even years ahead of press coverage," says the Post; yet the new issue explores mainly old press favorites: ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only the touted "Revolution by Design" is clearly different. Twenty-two different type sizes and faces greet the reader from the table of contents page. Photos are sometimes surprisingly abstract. Despite the new look (and a nickel price rise to 20?), pledges the Post, it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What's New? | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

Married. Jean Kerr McCarthy, 36, widow of the late Senator from Wisconsin; and G. Joseph Minetti, 53, Brooklyn Democrat appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1956; both for the second time: in Washington's St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral, scene of the McCarthy wedding eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 15, 1961 | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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