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Died. Mabel Wellington White Stimson, 89, widow of Henry L. Stimson, four-time Cabinet member under Presidents Taft (1911-13), Hoover (1929-33), Roosevelt and Truman (1940-45); in Huntington...
Last week Mrs. Ann Woodward left the Manhattan hospital where she had been a patient for three weeks, since the night when she killed her husband, Millionaire Sportsman William Woodward Jr., with a blast from a shotgun (TIME, Nov. 7). The widow was no longer a dazzling glamour girl: shock and grief had visibly aged her, and she was in a state of near-collapse. Her first stop after leaving the hospital was police headquarters at Mineola, N.Y. There Ann Woodward repeated her story that she had killed her husband in the dark under the impression that...
...postal worker's widow, and now a charwoman on Chicago's North Side, Agnes Jones had to watch every penny. So she was delighted by a neighbor's suggestion that a dental laboratory down the block could make her a set of false teeth more cheaply than a dentist could. On her first visit to a grubby North Clark Street office, a technician examined Mrs. Jones's mouth and told her: "I have had a dentist for 28 years, and he knows his stuff." The lab man quoted...
...DYING FALL, by Henry Wade (241 pp.; Macmillan; $2.75). After the wealthy widow marries the fortune-hunting gambler, does she fall or is she pushed from the second-floor landing to her death? One of those expert British suspense jobs, the story moves suavely on two levels; a seemingly slow-paced tale set in hunting country, it crackles with undercurrents of blackmail, violent passion and murder. Topnotch in its class, it has the season's best double-whammy ending...
...Indictments. In 1946 she badgered the county into grand jury investigations that produced 64 indictments against slot-machine operators and liquor racketeers. The same year she landed in trouble when she interviewed the widow of a Negro during the trial of five white men charged with killing him. Since the widow was a witness in the case, the judge found Editor Smith in contempt of court, told her: "I realize you are putting on a great campaign for law and order, but if you read history, you will see that the only Perfect Being did not make much...