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Cherchez la Femme. Baer's wife insisted that her husband was dead. But Frankfurt State Prosecutor Heinz Wolf found that she had never initiated legal proceedings to have him declared so, even though that would have enabled her to claim a widow's pension. Investigators also discov ered that while ostensibly living with her father in a Hamburg suburb, she spent a lot of time in a cottage on the edge of the Sachsenwald, the home of a quiet-spoken woodcutter named Karl Egon Neumann...
...your only customer. Give your wife 1,440 cruzeiros [$7.57] to buy a case of 24 bottles of caninha Garcas [raw-sugar-cane alcohol]. Buy a bottle a day at 5 cr. (3?) a shot from your wife. If you live another ten years and then drop dead, your widow will have 115,200 cr. [$606.31] in the bank-enough to raise the kids, pay off the mortgage, marry a good man and forget that she ever knew a drunken bum like...
...father is the embodiment of the century's early surge of humanism; a fearless and optimistic man who taught himself architecture, and who leads his fellow townsmen in the building of schools and the forming of dramatic societies. He dies while Henry is still young, and his widow cuts up his green military uniform to make a suit for the boy. From then on, green is the only color the worshipful Henry will wear, and his schoolmates soon tag him with his nickname...
...died, Kirby simplified the company's capital structure, placed the preferred stock on a current-dividend basis and let Alleghany's cash board build up. His reluctance to put Alleghany's cash to work caused a break with the Murchisons, as well as Young's widow who sold her stock to the Murchisons to abet their proxy battle...
Married. Debbie Reynolds, 28, Eddie Fisher's ex; and Harry Karl, 46, millionaire shoe manufacturer who has trouble keeping his laces tied-he married and divorced Hollywood's Marie ("The Body") McDonald twice, stayed married to Cinemogul Harry Conn's widow for 23 days; she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Hollywood...