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...Jawlensky (pronounced Yav-lensky) is having a spirited revival that has brought a round of exhibits in Germany, London and Paris, and a current show at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries (see color page). Chief reason: the release of nearly 100 Jawlensky paintings, by his 75-year-old widow, who lives in Wiesbaden. The new showings have placed Jawlensky with Kandinsky and Chagall among the best of Russia's 20th century painters...
When her husband died eleven months ago, Mrs. Charles Ulrick Bay, widow of the former U.S. Ambassador to Norway, found herself with 71% of the stock in Wall Street's venerable (since 1865) brokerage firm of A. M. Kidder & Co. Inc. But the New York Stock Exchange requires, in effect, that a stockholder who owns more than 45% of a member company's shares must either 1) sell the stock, or 2) take an active part in the firm. Since she always had an active interest in her husband's business and philanthropic dealings...
...made only $5,000,000 by closing time. With his filthy lucre, Sanders buys himself a fine Fifth Avenue mansion and decorates it with such costly bric-a-brac as a millionairess (Zsa Zsa Gabor), her secretary (Nancy Gates), the wife of a business rival (Coleen Gray), the widow (Lisa Ferraday) of the brother he had betrayed...
Last week in Fort Benton, the townsfolk were talking about Ken Scott and Viv Squires. Some people wanted to name the high school athletic field in Scott's honor. Others planned to raffle off the bear's head and give the money to his widow...
Gerald's own, a long-ago, long-drawn-out liaison with the alcoholic widow of that same irreverent Stokesay who tampered with the tomb at Melpham...