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...legendary ruthlessness, was still a man of some honor who was always generous to the poor and considerate of women. After killing a policeman in line of duty, he would often pay for a fine funeral and settle a generous sum on the officer's widow...
...Must Choose." Mendès-France believed in himself. And last week, in hundreds of letters to newspapers and the government, Frenchmen declared their belief in him. "Your presence gives us comfort," wrote a pensioned widow. "A man who speaks to us with frankness and simplicity, you have restored confidence long lost to us," wrote a retired miller...
Next day a helicopter picked George Argus off the lower slopes. Wood and Viereck had gone to McKinley Park headquarters for the "toughest part" of their ordeal: telling Thayer's widow of her husband's death. She asked that no more lives be risked to recover his body, buried on the avalanche-ridden slope. "He loved mountains, and that's where he'd want to stay," she said...
Perennially best-dressed Mrs. Mono Williams, 57, widow of Utilitycoon Harrison Williams and chief heir to his reported $100 million, opened a flower and fruit stand on the grounds of her 60-acre Long Island estate. Planning to peddle the products of her own gardens and orchards, she saw no good reason why the rich should not grow richer. Said she: "It's not just for fun. I hope the shop will pay for itself. You don't go into business unless you plan to make money...
Married. Wogan Philipps, 52, eldest son of Britain's millionaire Baron Milford and unsuccessful onetime (1950) Communist candidate for Parliament; and Tamara Rust, 40, widow of William Rust, longtime (1930-49) editor of London's Communist Daily Worker; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. When Philipps succeeds to his father's title, he will become the House of Lords' first Communist member, his wife the realm's first Communist peeress...