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This is the 14th group of Nieman Fellows awarded a year of study at Harvard since the fellowships were established from the money left by the widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal. One hundred fifty-eight persons have held the fellowships in the first 13 years, to pursue studies of their own choice for background use in their journalistic work. The men get leaves of absence from their papers...
This is the 14th group of Nieman Fellows awarded a year of study at Harvard since the fellowships were established from the money left by the widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal. One hundred fifty-eight persons have held the fellowships in the first 13 years, to pursue studies of their own choice for background use in their journalistic work. The men get leaves of absence from their papers...
...always said he wanted to be buried in a military cemetery, so his widow Evelyn bought a lot in the military section of the Memorial Park Cemetery, 25 miles from Winnebago, outside Sioux City, la. Last week, John Rice's funeral procession rolled through the undulating corn country from Winnebago to Sioux City. At the grave an American Legion firing squad fired the traditional three volleys of the military burial service. The service ended when Evelyn Rice was given the flag that had draped her husband's coffin...
...undertaker went to the weather-beaten farmhouse where Evelyn Rice lives. She had been composed at the grave, but now she could not hold back the tears. "Why?" she sobbed. With her three small children around her, John Rice's widow tried to decide what...
...police commissioner in the neighborhood began to get letters ("Madame So-and-So caused two persons to disappear in 1943 and buried their bodies in her garden"). The commissioner got on the trail, arrested Madame Célestine Camille Martin, a 57-year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect of jail did not alarm the pink raven. Said...