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...them again." But Barkley made himself one of the best-known Vice Presidents in history. His grandchildren tagged him "the Veep," a national title that delighted the headline writers. And in 1949 the headlines followed hot on the Veep's coattails as he courted and won the winsome Widow Hadley of St. Louis, and took her home to Washington and Paducah...
Married. Mrs. John J. Raskob, 67, widow of the Manhattan financier and onetime (1928-32) chairman of the Democratic National Committee; and John P. Corcoran, fiftyish, grass-seed executive, who formerly managed Raskob's Maryland farm; she for the second time, he for the first; in Tucson, Ariz...
Died. Mrs. Alice Warder Garrett, sixtyish, great lady of Baltimore society and widow of John W. Garrett, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Italy; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. A longtime patron of the arts, she was the main support of Baltimore's Musical Arts Quartet, a chamber music group for which she built a special theater in her home...
...Paris, U.S. Ambassador James Dunn presented the widow of Marshal of France Jean de Lattre de Tassigny the posthumous award of the Legion of Merit for "sustained combat operations in the struggle against Communism...
When Tereso hears that Fausta, a luscious widow with the face of a boy and the soul of a strumpet, will attend a fancy dress party, he decides that he too will go. This decision of state sets off a barrage of complications. Tereso's chief of police, worried that he may lose his post because his harsh methods are no longer needed in the thoroughly subdued country, decides to stage and then dramatically crush a phony attempt on the dictator's life. The "assassination" is to be undertaken by Perro, a police spy with a passion...