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...body of Pfc. Alton B. Sterner, killed last June in Korea, came home to Rockwood (pop. 1,237), Pa., with an official Army escort, Sergeant Ira Frank Green, 25. He had known Sterner and had been in correspondence with the dead man's 19-year-old widow Alma. Green asked Alma to marry him. The widow quickly said...
...Inevitable. The Abbouds were not moved. Mohammed's father, the chief, invoked an ancient tradition: he decreed that his son should not be buried until he was avenged in blood. Fadwa, the widow, shed her modern ways and vowed that her family, the fierce Barazis, would also avenge her husband. The Abbouds and the Barazis knew the Prophet had sanctioned what they must do, for it is written in the Koran: "0 believers! Retaliation for bloodshed is prescribed...
Married. Lana Turner, 33, cinemactress (The Merry Widow); and Lex Barker, 34, Hollywood's tenth Tarzan of the Apes; he for the third time, she for the fifth (her previous marriages to Millionaire Playboy Bob Topping. Businessman Steven Crane-two marriages-Bandleader Artie Shaw, all ended in divorce); in Turin, Italy...
...strongest personalities aboard the death ship was a Mrs. Nunn, the widow of a British colonial officer who went down with the Rooseboom. She became a sort of spiritual mother for the derelicts. A few days before she died, she took a Bible that someone had salvaged and read a religious service to all her companions. Not long after that, Gibson organized a counterattack against the murder gang and threw them overboard...
Four months after Novelist Edna Ferber called New York the filthiest city in the world and "a scab on the face of our country," Mrs. Wendell Willkie, widow of the 1940 presidential candidate, arrived from Europe with a new blast. "I think New York is the dirtiest city I've ever been in, and I love New York," said Edith Willkie. But she had the start of a solution: "I'm willing to go out with a broom and help clean up myself...