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...pile of boulders 120 feet below. He had a broken back and broken jaw. Not until next morning did Dr. André Mairey reach the unconscious Loubens. Even as he lashed the injured man to a stretcher, Loubens died. The stretcher jammed in the rocks. While Loubens' widow and father waited at the surface, the spelunkers thoughtfully removed Loubens' wedding ring and then buried him where no doubt he would have preferred to be buried, under a heap of boulders, a thousand feet underground...
...late Sir Stafford Cripps's one-page will was filed for probate in Gloucester, England. The onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer left an estate of $42,380 to his widow and a three-bedroom cottage to his daughter, Diana...
...preview birthday party" at Hill-rest Farm, Peterborough, N.H., Mrs. Edward MacDowell, 94-year-old widow of famed U.S. Composer Edward (To a Wild Rose) MacDowell, heard praise and thanks from some 500 artists and friends for founding the 600-acre MacDowell Colony, an inexpensive, secluded working spot which has produced more than 20 Pulitzer Prizewinners in the past 45 years...
...widow of General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, World War II Air Force boss, turned over some 15,000 of his personal papers and items to the Library of Congress, which accepted the gift as "an invaluable addition" to its collection of aeronautical manuscripts...
Meanwhile, Hearst's Journal-American interviewed Mrs. Bernie by phone and broke out an "exclusive": BERNIE WIDOW CALLS ROSE'S STORY 'LIES.' Mrs. Bernie, said the Journal, wanted to remind Billy of his days as a syndicated columnist. Then Eleanor was the model of a faithful wife and often the star of his column. "Billy knows as well as I do that Eleanor is a fine girl. She was a wonderful wife and he told everybody how great she was. He wrote it in his columns . . . and he knows she is still the same girl...