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...Forrestal papers were presented to Princeton in two donations. Forrestal's widow and son, Michael V. and Peter O. Forrestal, gave the initial donation. The papers are not available to the public because of their personal matter...
When John P. Moodie's automobile struck and killed Pedestrian Robert J. McDonell in Detroit last June, McDonell's widow Faye was left with four small children to feed, and a fifth on the way. Last week Detroit Traffic Judge John D. Watts (see cut) offered Moodie a choice of punishments: go to jail for "four or five years," or help support the McDonell children for five years. Moodie, a $120-a-week tool-factory worker with four children of his own to support, agreed to pay the widow $80 a month...
...taken her in. The U.N. Civil Assistance Command has been looking after the Ahns for a couple of years; the kids are outfitted in olive-drab pants. Mrs. Ahn wears a dogskin neckpiece, a relic of the old days, of which she is very fond; at 31, a widow in a country where widows are unwanted, Mrs. Ahn has not much to look forward to, but if she can find her father, they will make a home...
Marching north over the bleak, desolate, road to Munsan that night, in the true spirit of independence, but with no designs of conquest, was the widow Ahn Nam-chang and her little family. It was the first full moon of the lunar new year and, in accordance with age-old custom, peasant folk were cracking open the hard little Korean walnuts to foretell the future. No matter that Korea lay devastated by war, there was still a future. If the kernels came out whole, that was a good omen. On the other hand, if they came out broken, that...
...good-looking, good-for-nothing roughneck (Ralph Meeker), he comes among a widow who had married unwisely for love; her two daughters, one beautiful and besought (Janice Rule), the other bright and coltishly adolescent (Kim Stanley); her boarder, an old-maid schoolteacher with an unmatrimonial-minded beau; her next-door neighbor, a middle-aged woman chained to an invalid mother. The roughneck and the beautiful girl fall hard for each other: there is a climactic scene where they dance slowly and sexually, while the other women look on-awed, envious, aroused. The fellow is sent about his business...