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...library of Milwaukee's Marquette University lumbered a truck from Washington, bearing about one-quarter of a weighty new gift: the personal and public papers of a 1935 alumnus, the late Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Donated to the university by the Senator's widow and ex-research assistant. Jean Kerr McCarthy (soon to become the wife of Civil Aeronautics Board Member G. Joseph Minetti), the first shipment of 30 packing cases contained mostly press notices of the Senator's storm-tossed career. But the remaining material, with its dossiers on his bétes rouges, would...
While Cuba's cultural commissars pondered converting Ernest Hemingway's 13-acre Finca Vigia into a museum, his widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, was more concerned about his literary monument. Spending what may be her last weeks at their longtime Cuban home, Mrs. Hemingway, as per her husband's request, destroyed personal papers, culled his "hundreds of thousands of typewritten pages" for marginal notes like "burn this" or "this is pretty good" as a guide to what to publish and what to let perish. Among the manuscripts that Mary Hemingway may or may not ever release: The Dangerous...
Happy Motherhood. Now a widow of 44, svelte and blonde and the mother of three. Dr. Weill-Halle has seen her volunteer movement, named Maternité Heureuse (Happy Motherhood), shoot up overnight into a major national organization, the French Movement for Family Planning. In Paris 15 physicians are already giving advice on contraception to their private patients. Even the staid French Association of Women Doctors has come around to demanding repeal...
...parents, limited to students majoring in mathematics, engineering, the physical sciences, and medicine, which has aided a total of 270 students in twelve years, including some whose grants saw them through eight years of schooling. ¶The John C. Dwan Educational Foundation, founded this year by the widow of a local attorney and director of the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. who left an estate of $22,579,000. ¶The Soneson scholarships, established last year in the will of Mrs. Anna Soneson Rahn to honor her first husband, who ran a chain of auto-parts stores. The grants, limited...
Married. Jason Robards Jr., 39, Broadway luminary of Toys in the Attic and The Disenchanted; and Cinemactress Lauren (The Big Sleep, Key Largo) Bacall, 36, widow of Humphrey Bogart; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ensenada, Mexico, after being balked by legal obstacles (among them: lack of Bogie's death certificate) on a seven-week hotel-hop of London, Paris, Vienna and Las Vegas...