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...late Joseph Freeman, onetime Washington business agent indicted in the Garsson-May munitions scandal but later acquitted, demanded $100,000 for steering Green to the right people. Freeman never did a thing, said Green, but after he died, the truck dealer softheartedly thought of Freeman's widow and infant and settled out of court...
China's Madame SUN YATSEN, 60, widow of the founder of the Chinese (Kuomintang) Republic, sister-in-law and political foe of Chiang Kaishek, joined the Red regime at Peking as one of its showpiece non-Communist vice chairmen...
...Margaret Landon's novel, Anna and the King of Siam; produced by Rodgers & Hammerstein) may not quite be Rodgers & Hammerstein at their best, but it is musicomedy at its most charming. Distance lends enchantment doubly-in time as well as space-to the story of an English widow who went to Siam in the 1860s to act as governess to the King's large brood, and found her most eager, childish and unruly pupil in the King himself...
Reporters in Paris discovered the person answering classified ads for a job in Britain was none other than Princess Djavidan, widow of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, last hereditary King of Egypt. Said the ex-queen: "I used to have a whole country; now I look forward to a kitchen. I feel that with the British people I can start a new life more easily than with any other...
English-speaking Americans, however, were more than borrowers and corrupters. As the nation grew, the language grew too-adding pull up stakes and pony express, wistaria and widow's walk, freshman and flunk, sideburns (the cheek whiskers worn by Union Army General Ambrose Burnside) and bloomers (the billowing trousers worn by Feminist Amelia Bloomer). An erudite U.S. missionary named T. S. Savage first named the gorilla. His source: the Greek translation of the word that Hanno of Carthage used to describe the hostile and hairy creatures he met on his travels...