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...imported crystal chandelier ($174) and foam-rubber padding ($382). Brewster insisted that Sweeney's estate would pay for anything Sweeney had owed the union. How? Out of the $50,000 that the Teamsters' rank and file had since forked over, by special assessment, to Sweeney's widow...
...gave him meat and bones to support his vigil. Villagers greeted him with cheering words. Sometimes, on chilly nights, the bus company even permitted Fido to do his waiting inside, instead of under the bus. And each year, though hard pressed to support her own household, Carlo's widow raised the money for Fido's dog license...
...member of one of Virginia's grand old families, an able journalist (on and off from 1931 to 1948 with FORTUNE, LIFE and TIME), an occasional novelist (To My Father, The Death of Kings), a big man with a strong appetite for good living. This is his widow's story from the time he learned, in the fall of 1954, that he had cancer of the lower bowel until, less than four months later, he committed suicide, at 53, by slashing his wrists with a razor handed to him by his wife...
...soon becomes clear that these are not ordinary people. No ordinary widow would recall in print that on the night before the journey to the hospital, "weary, and suddenly very weak as he was, Wert made love to me. It was simple and mutual and profound...
Died. Princess Helen of Greece, 75, formerly Grand Duchess Helen of Russia, granddaughter of Czar Alexander II (1818-81), mother of Britain's Duchess of Kent and widow of Prince Nicholas, third son of King George I of Greece; of a heart ailment; in Athens...