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...Communist Party from 1932 to 1957. Three times he ran for U.S. President on the Communist Party ticket. Early this year, in failing health, he flew off to Moscow to die. During the long afternoon vigil over his coffin, Nina Khrushchev sat by Foster's widow Esther...
...sort of night that society columnists dream of. On the seafront terrace of a colonnaded mansion at Cap Ferrat, Mary Lasker widow of U.S. Advertising Tycoon Albert D. Lasker, was dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace, and Anna Rosenberg. President Truman's Assistant Defense Secretary. At nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht...
...acre Finca Vigia estate and its 5,500-volume library to "the Cuban people-not the government," Mary Welsh Hemingway gathered together "a mountain of papers" from a bank vault in nearby Havana and returned to the States. Describing herself as "totally ignorant on political matters," the widow of Nobel-Laureate Ernest Hemingway remained tight-lipped about the Castro regime ("For some of our friends in Cuba, the change in government has been better and for some, worse") as she laid over in Tampa prior to "going to New York to talk with lawyers about the estate." Her subsequent stop...
Still clad in widow's weeds, Maria Martinez de Trujillo, 56, third wife of assassinated Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, stopped off at New York's Idlewild airport along with five grandchildren whom she was shepherding toward a Swiss school. Ignoring a crowd of 300 demonstrators who spat and shouted "Bloody murderers," the matronly authoress (Moral Meditations, Civic Meditations) attributed the current precarious peace in the Dominican Republic to "the affection the people bore my husband," but "categorically" rejected all talk of a continuation of the dynasty by the current commander of the republic's armed forces...
...fine arts committee for Israel's new Jerusalem Museum of Art, he announced that he had persuaded U.S. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz to bequeath 300 original plasters to the museum.* Last week he announced another coup. While lunching in London a month ago, he said, he asked the widow of Sculptor Jacob Epstein just what her U.S.-born husband would have done with his 200-odd original plasters had he known that Rose was gathering works for the ambitious museum in Israel. "Give them to you," said Lady Epstein, and in Sir Jacob's name...