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Thanks largely to a fine performance by Charles Laughton as a bumbling, middle-aged widower trying to woo his baby's pretty governess, The Blue Veil's first episode could hold its own as part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...
...scorching denial. "This is a lie," he wrote. "I said under oath [in testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950] that there was a leaking liar in the Cabinet and the President agreed ... I do not wish to quarrel with a dead man or his widow and children. Their husband and father wished very much to see me a few months before he died . . . Undoubtedly at that time he was trying to set his spiritual house in order. May God rest the soul of this curiously tortured man who served his country and the armed services...
Decline & Fall. By August of that year, the guillotine, which soon became known to all as "The Widow," was knifing through the necks of its first aristocrats. One morning two years later, Charles lopped off 44 heads, twelve of them in 20 minutes-a record for the time. He later had the honor of demonstrating his technique personally on his old master, Louis XVI. Charles Henri retired heartbroken when his youngest son fell off a scaffold and broke his neck while triumphantly displaying a severed head to the crowd. His eldest son Henri, executioner of Marie Antoinette, served until...
...Christmas 1758, George Washington, 26, late colonel of militia in the French & Indian War, went home to Mt. Vernon. He had fought well; now he could settle down to the life he was meant for, the easy rounds of a well-to-do Virginia planter. He married a comely widow named Martha Custis, took on the responsibility of two stepchildren, and began thinking about improving his estate and buying more land...
...After the slight wound had healed, his leg became infected. A hospital gave him treatment, but after two weeks at home, he felt progressively worse. A few days later he died. An autopsy showed he had had a skin disease and was sensitive to any small wound. Thus his widow and children received lawful benefits from the company, which did not examine the man close enough to detect the disease when he began work there...