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...home. He had been rich, powerful and famous, cantankerous, brilliant, often brutal, the little Napoleon of an automaking empire. But France's only eulogy for him was a grimace and an ugly word: "collaborator." Last week, in the cooler atmosphere of eleven years later, Louis Renault's widow sought a court decision to establish that Renault had not died of uremia, but had been "deliberately murdered after torture." The widow's story made big headlines, but it did not really startle Frenchmen; they sensed that it was probably true...
When Madame Sun Yatsen, a vice-chairman in Communist China's government and widow of republican China's founder, * paid a visit to Karachi last week, practically the whole government was at the airport to greet her. So was a Soviet-bloc delegation, just arrived from Warsaw to offer industrial goods for Pakistani jute and cotton that Western markets have been slow to take. A Pakistani official called hers "a warmer reception" than Nixon or Dulles got in Pakistan...
...success, he avows, is not due entirely to Harvard. "It's more that I'm a full-time servant to the public. I look out for the little fellows' rights. And they vote for me." The mayor explained that when a retired old widow calls him and want to know where her social security check is, he sends his red Mercury station wagon after her, drives her down to the appropriate bureau, and straightens the matter out. Then he drives her back home. "You know, after that she'll vote...
...testified that her estranged husband neglected his family by spending so much time and money on his five cars (a 1924 Maxwell, a custom-built Pinard, a 1952 Willys, a 1953 Morgan, a 1954 Packard), Mrs. Edith Thompson moaned in court: "Your Honor, I'm a sports-car widow...
...Historians disagree whether the boy in question was Lincoln's eldest son Bob or his youngest, Tad, but all four Lincoln sons had received a private emancipation proclamation from the man they called "Pa." His attitude was: "Let the children have a good time." Biographer Randall (Mary Lincoln), widow of the late Lincoln scholar J. G. Randall, brings a mother-hen style to her bundle of anecdotes that will wholly please only devoted parents and memorabilia collectors, but the book does light up Lincoln as father, and what it means to grow up in the shadow of a great...