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Married. Carmen Burr Johnson, 33, widow and a trustee of the $5,000,000 estate of Arnold Johnson, owner of the Kansas City Athletics; and Warren Hume, 38, man about Palm Beach; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
Died. Mrs. Worthington Scranton, 76, suffragist widow of a member of Scranton's founding family and duchess of Pennsylvania politics, who was a delegate to every Republican National Convention from 1920 to 1948, a National Committeewoman for 23 years, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1936 to 1938, only woman member of the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense during World War II; of a heart attack; in Dalton...
...them a recognizable beat-here a child sacrificed to a flame-bellied god, there a few slaves squashed by a toppling idol. But the liberties are taken with considerable skill, and most of them make entertainingly dramatic sense. The Bible says nothing about the origins of the young Moabite widow who tells her mother-in-law Naomi, "Whither thou goest, I will go," and accompanies her to Bethlehem. Consequently, no one can disprove the Scriptures according to Fox, which make her a neophyte priestess of Chemosh, the child-devouring stone divinity. This gives Elana Eden, the dark-eyed Israeli actress...
...widow of Wendell Willkie, the surprise Republican presidential nominee of 1940, jointly endorsed the predictable nominee of 1960, Vice President Nixon. Nixon, said Philip Willkie. is "the best qualified and most experienced man in both foreign and domestic affairs...
...Miss Ellen" Gray, the well-bred widow who is the wispy heroine of Pierce's story, self-discovery is not easy. She spent her prewar life in an indolent dreamworld as soft and sheltered as a cotton boll, with endless maids and mammies to tend every want that a dutiful husband and son could not fulfill. The war killed both, and drove Miss Ellen from the family plantation to live with relatives in Raleigh; even then the protective cocoon of her gentility was scarcely damaged. In June 1865 she returns home with her widowed daughter-in-law, "Miss Lucy...