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...Clair of the 1920 Oyster Bay Set (those were the days and the people) is making the final arrangements for her blonde, blue-eyed, and fashionably flat daughter's coming out party. Daughter is none too happy about it all as she has a poor but noble lover. Widow St. Clair is, herself, being courted by the dubious but delightful Sir Peter who doesn't care as long as women and liquor (on the rocks) are free. To add to the tumult, Mrs. St. Clair's long lost brother from Kansas shows up with his wife and lots of socially...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: On the Rocks | 3/21/1957 | See Source »

...Harold W. Dodds, president of the university, said the late David Mahany, a member of the class of 1907, left the bulk of his estate in trust to his widow, Mrs. Georgiana S. Mahany, with the provision that it go to the university on her death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Receives Bequest of 3 Million | 3/19/1957 | See Source »

...garish Acapulco the lavishly jeweled American widow and her elderly lawyer friend were steered everywhere by a handsome Mexican-American travel agent. Young Luis Fenton was a great find. His office was right in their hotel, Las Hamacas. Wealthy Mrs. Edith Hallock, 63, even wrote home admiringly about him to her sister in New York. With the help of Luis, 33, she and Joseph A. Michel, 70, saw everything-from the thrilling high dives of bronzed young natives off the towering sea cliffs to the intriguing low dives along the waterfront. Luis arranged a midnight yacht trip for the happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Search. In Johannesburg, South Africa, Bachelor John Henry King, 105, met and proposed to Widow Fannie Excell, 87, commented: "At last I have found the right woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...drunk, and she died. He is more or less expiating his deed as a futile, filthy, good-hearted drunk and buffoon. The central theme is largely the story of his "redemption" as he responds to the need of those around him in the plague, and to the widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they are. And the film ends with the doctor deciding to resume practice and the lovers rushing into one another's arms. This fairly complex tale is told clearly and movingly. Gerard Philippe plays the bum with a wonderful...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Proud and the Beautiful | 3/15/1957 | See Source »

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