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...center of the crush, police clubbed back the mob to keep Infante's relatives from being pushed into the grave. In all, 114 were arrested and more than 100 injured. Widow Irma wept at the graveside, while Widow Maria Luisa mourned in a limousine near by. Still to be decided...
...pudgy, amiable defendant, expert after expert took the stand at the behest of the crown's prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller. No one denied that on Dr. Adams' orders large doses of heroin, morphine and paraldehyde had been administered to the ailing, 81-year-old widow during the long illness that preceded her death. Only the experts could say whether this medication had hastened her end or merely, as the defense contended, eased the pain of her inevitable passing. The more the experts talked, the less the laymen on the jury could be sure of anything...
PATH FASHION HOUSE of Paris, which carried on under Widow Genevieve Fath after Jacques Fath died in 1954, is going out of dress business. Once ranked with Dior in sensational creations, House of Fath will sell only such accessories as hosiery, gloves, perfumes...
...screen by Director Delbert Mann, who made Marty. The scenes in the subway and the office are first-rate epigrams of locale. The reluctant groom C Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow"). The hardened bachelor (Jack Warden), young but not so young as he used to be, is also pathetic. "Home?" he laughs. "What do I wanna go home fuh? I awready read alia papuhs." But nobody is fooled. And this is what Paddy Chayefsky truly understands and poignantly expresses: that loneliness...
...OBSESSION OF EMMET BOOTH, by Martha Albrand (240 pp.; Random House: $3.50), is a psychological suspense story, and the suspense derives from the question whether Beauty will succumb to the Beast. The Beauty of the story, widow of a paragonish professor, is Miranda Page, who looks like something out of Harper's Bazaar but talks like something out of Harper's Magazine. The Beast is not really beastly, merely unpleasant: Emmet Booth is nearly 50, short, balding, a self-made millionaire of lowly origins whose monster of an inferiority feeling must be appeased by constant sacrifices. Unsatiated...