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...Guggenheim claimed that the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock had turned out paintings on the side during the penniless years when she had been paying him $300 a month for his entire output (except for one picture per year). Her response: a law suit against the artist's widow, Lee Krasner Pollock (herself a highly regarded abstractionist), demanding either the paintings or the proceeds from the alleged moonlighting operations, plus $122,000 in damages...
late R. R. McCormick, who published the Chicago Tribune, and is now in the home of his widow in Washington...
Esther C. Goddard, widow and former research associate of U.S. Rocket Pioneer...
After four years as a widow, during which she started and then scrapped a book on the stormy career of her late husband, Communist-hunting Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Mrs. Jean Kerr McCarthy, 36, former college beauty queen, disclosed plans to wed a widower whose wife also died four years ago. Her choice: G. Joseph Minetti, 53, Brooklyn lawyer, Civil Aeronautics Board member and confirmed Democrat...
...four-hour chamber work was innocently titled Elegy for Young Lovers, but the plot was anything but innocent. A predatory poet has earned fame by secretly transcribing the rantings of a middle-aged widow, driven mad by the wedding-night death of her bridegroom 40 years earlier. For further inspiration, the poet sends two young lovers to their death on an Alpine peak, and as the curtain falls, he is reciting his latest opus: Elegy for Young Lovers. The tragicomic moral: death for art's sake...