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With the death of the C.I.O.'s Phil Murray (TIME, Nov. 17) and Bill Green, Lewis found himself the lonely survivor of labor's big three. Last week he got off a wire of condolence to Green's 82-year-old widow. "The coal miners of the nation, of whom [your husband] was one until his final hour," he said in a rare gesture of amnesty, "will join with me in expressing grief at his passing...
...said he had murdered a comrade, Jan Sverma, and then recruited Sverma's widow-who apparently harbored no resentment-into the Slansky ring. (A few days later the widow appeared in the courtroom-as a witness, not yet a defendant-and admitted, in tears, that she had joined the conspiracy. Commented Prague radio: "This great traitor tried vainly to simulate remorse...
Romantic Man dreams of being marooned on a desert island with one ideal woman. Romantic Woman dreams of being marooned with a wide choice of men. Last week a comely 32-year-old Okinawa-born widow named Kazuko Higa arrived in Tokyo for a burlesque tour, during which she planned to tell Japanese audiences what it was like to be marooned alone for five years with 31 men. It was not, she implied, all that it might...
...Universities' first maid never had a chance to get home. When the Board of Overseers, in 1772, appointed the Widow Morse "to be the Sweeper of Hollis provided she be able to attend to the Duty without, drinking Spirits", the good Widow was given a room in the basement of the hall. For her end of the deal, she was promised that when she retired, she could bequeath the job to her daughter. The widow's daughter set a record of 41 years of service that has not since been equalled. Still in harness when she passed away, the Widow...
...18th-century mixup, Les Fausses Confidences was all ambitious mothers and wily servants, dissembling lovers and trumped-up letters. But in an elegantly stylized production, the play seemed almost to be danced. Done so lightly, even its witless deceptions had an air of wit. Madeleine Renaud made an exquisite widow; Barrault, playing an agile valet, had about him a touch of quicksilver, of Mercury himself. To enjoy the production it was less necessary to understand French than to respond to style...