Word: widowing
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...radio career, i.e., picking her own boy friend and would-be husband. The man she thinks she loves is Hari Sahni, a fellow announcer with a neat little Clark Gable mustache. But Mama Chakravarty, like Mama Morgenstern, has no intention of letting her daughter marry a no-good. A widow, she marches Amrita straight off to stern old grandpa for a verbal rattanning: "I have enquired into the young man's family. The result was not satisfactory...
...When widowed Vice President Alben W. Berkley took handsome Widow Jane Hadley as his wife six years ago, two 14-year-old youngsters became moonstruck, were photographed passing up the wedding luncheon delicacies. Instead, they devoured each other with shy lamb eyes...
Died. Pauline Morton Davis, 67, widow of Dwight Davis (Secretary of War under Calvin Coolidge and tennis' Davis Cup donor), founder (1929) of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, first woman member (1924) of the Republican National Committee; after long illness; in Washington...
...sketchbook was found with Marc's body, and in the sketchbook were 35 exquisite drawings no bigger than his hand. The drawings were sent to Marc's widow, who kept them until her death last year. Last week, in Munich's Graphische Sammlung, they were shown publicly for the first time...
Died. Josephine D. Peary. 92, widow of Admiral Robert E. (North Pole) Peary; in Portland, Me. Josephine Peary accompanied her husband on three arctic journeys, fashioned the taffeta U.S. flag that he planted in the ice at the top of the world in the first expedition to the pole in 1909, was delivered in 1893 of the famed "snow baby," the most northerly born white child on record (now Mrs. Edward Stafford of Washington...