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John Patrick has written a successful comedy about a widow who has hidden her $10,000,000 fortune from her avaricious heirs. They do not discover that the money is gone until after they have committed her to a mental institution. She is only too sane and manager to make them look even there ridiculous than her fellow inmates in the search for the money. Mr. Patrick has happily peopled his rest home with fresh and likable people and has avoided the pitfalls of sentiment. There is no suggestion that these search people are better off than their stronger brethren...
...Kathleen MacDonald had read a lot about the atom bomb, and it made her uneasy. Said she: "Being a widow, there's so little you can do [for protection]. It's different when you have a man to lean on." But one thing Widow MacDonald could do: build a bomb shelter for herself and her twelve-year...
...unguarded moments during each of the four seasons of the year. The camera looks aloft to watch hawks exchanging a dead mouse in midair, and under water to see weary salmon returning to their spawning beds. A young beaver goes off on his own, sets up housekeeping with a widow and her baby beaver and builds a dam for the family. A skulking coyote preys on the well-camouflaged heron and bittern and the nimble marmot and badger...
Male Order. In Miami, Mayor William Wohlfarth pondered a letter from a Texas widow asking him to help her find a husband about 45 who 1) likes to hunt and fish, 2) loves horses, 3) will give her $10,000 cash (no checks) before the wedding...
Away from Parliament Hill, he spent most of his time at Laurier House, a homely old mansion willed to him by the widow of his predecessor. In the attic study hung a lighted picture of his mother, the only woman in King's life. On a nearby wall was a framed copy of a public notice offering ?1,000 reward for the capture of William Lyon Mackenzie, his grandfather and namesake, who led a rebellion for responsible government in Canada...