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...case shook Clayton to the core. "I feel scared," said white-haired Widow Hathaway. "I'm all tight inside, like nervous tension." Then, looking out of the window at McFall's restaurant, she cried, "Oh, how can they just sit over there looking...
...Pang's dull-eyed and incoherent widow and their four children, they huddled in a 15-by-30-ft. tent, which they shared with three others in a Pusan slum. Cardboard stuffed along the sides blocked out some of the cold, but in the middle of the room a pan of water froze quite hard. At week's end nobody from the Army had called on the family; a spokesman explained that "no administrative procedures have been drawn" to handle this sort of thing...
...Manhattan, Mrs. Margaret W. Patterson, widow of Robert P. Patterson, former Secretary of War who met his death in a plane crash in Elizabeth, N.J. a year ago, filed suit against American Airlines for $2,685,000, one of the largest individual damage claims ever filed against an airline...
...rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from his papers, even though some hold public office. He has fought daylight saving time, a public sewage-disposal project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules of nonpartisanship, the Exponent is Democratic, the Telegram Republican, and during campaigns each prints only the briefest news about the party it opposes. On the day that Harry Truman whistle-stopped at Clarksburg...
...humor; an eccentric, kilt-clad dame (Margaret Rutherford), who is bent on establishing the earl as the rightful sovereign of Scotland; a National Coal Board man (Brian Oulton), who is assigned to commandeer the castle as a hostel for miners. The plot is thickened by a wealthy American widow (Barbara Kelly), who is out to buy the castle, and by a pretty blonde ghost named Ermyntrude (Patricia Dainton), who was the mistress of the earl's grandfather...