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Proud old King Ibn Saud was outraged. He ordered the arrest of his son and offered Mrs. Ousman the privilege of prescribing his death in any way she saw fit, with the added promise that his head should be stuck on a pike outside the British embassy. The widow declined the offer and accepted $70,000 in damages. Soon afterward the old King cut his son's sentence to a jail term with 20 lashes each month. The fault, he had decided, had been not so much the prince's as that of the foreigners who had taught...
...Well," happy Auguste told some friends soon afterward, "I'm soon going to marry a young widow." Lucienne dimpled prettily: "Ah, but I'm not a young widow." "Aha," countered Auguste roguishly, "but you soon will...
...city and the hills of the island at all hours, meeting openly at his hotel. They made no effort to keep the affair quiet, but in gossip-ridden Hong Kong it would not have helped much if they had. She was a well-known doctor, the Eurasian widow of a Chinese Nationalist general who had been killed fighting the Communists. He was a British newspaper correspondent. She had a small daughter. He had a wife and children. As if all that weren't trouble enough, Han was politically troubled as well: now that the Communist armies were victorious...
...Suyin's real name was Elizabeth Tang, widow of General Tang Pao Huang, onetime Chinese military attaché in London. She began pouring both her lover's grief and her pro-Communist sympathies into a book almost as soon as Mark Elliott's death was announced. The act of writing seems to have brought a kind of peace to Elizabeth. In her book she wrote: "It is not going to happen again." Months later, she married a British policeman, moved to Malaya...
Senora de Orozco, widow of the late Mexican painter Jose Clemente Orozco, opened an exhibition containing over 200 of the noted artist's works yesterday at the Fogg Museum...