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...that her husband suffered from stomach ulcers and had frequent attacks of violent nausea. Her theory was that he had fallen overboard while standing at the ship's railing during one of these seizures. Because the Navy had ruled that Crawshaw died from his own misconduct, his widow got no Government insurance. Neither she nor her daughter would receive a pension. Ruth Crawshaw, who went back to nursing, was determined to clear her husband's name. She began to bombard the Navy, the Veterans' Bureau, Congressmen and the White House with letters. Some powerful allies, including...
Last week at March Field, Calif., Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg presented Major Louis J. Sebille's widow with the pale blue ribbon of the Medal of Honor. The Sebilles' 19-month-old son tottered about waving the boxed medal, while Mrs. Sebille watched a parade in her husband's honor. He was the 31st U.S. fighting man and the first Air Force flyer to win the nation's highest decoration in Korea...
...fortnight in which she had a good chance to learn who her friends were. The empire's chieftains, who had once sought her favor, quickly gave her the brushoff. They had read the Chief's will: it left the multimillion-dollar Hearst fortune* to Hearst's widow and five sons and to charities, left the details of administration to his sons and eight other executors who assumed, as a matter of course, that they would run the business...
...help himself up the long climb Dizzy married a society widow for her money. "An excellent creature," he said of her, "but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans." He came to love her so devotedly that he once paid her a supreme compliment: "Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife." She said of him: "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral courage, but no physical courage. When he has his shower bath, I always have to pull the string...
Corporal Baranowski was guilty enough, but the crime he should have been tried for, as the chaplain saw it, was love. Stationed in the Ukraine, the lonely corporal had become passionately fond of a young Russian widow, Liuba, innocently tipped her off on the moves his outfit made. Condemned to a penal company, he had given his guards the slip, been recaptured and sentenced to death...