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Before Captain Flynn's widow and two of his three children marched an imposing procession-the police band, a color guard, 6,000 uniformed cops and plainclothesmen (one-third of the city's entire force). Present at the service in the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension were the police glee club, which sang the Requiem Mass, the six Catholic, Jewish and Protestant police department chaplains, Police Commissioner William O'Brien and other top-ranking police officials, and, looking grim, Mayor O'Dwyer himself...
Died. Bessie Smith White, 88, widow of turn-of-the-century Architect-Decorator Stanford White,† most admired U.S. architect of his day; in St. James...
Died. Kate Cross-Eyes, ninetyish, widow of Geronimo, famed Ghiricahua Apache leader who terrorized white settlers in Arizona and New Mexico in the 1880s; in Mescalero, N.Mex. The last of Geronimo's wives to die. Kate was captured in 1886, the year he and his war band surrendered...
When the book begins, heroine Lady Mason is a loved and lovely widow, long domiciled at Orley Farm. Over 20 years have passed since her aged husband, on his deathbed, bequeathed the farm to their infant son. Or so the legal world had always believed-and would have continued to believe, had not young Lucius Mason, on taking over the old farm at the age of 22, brusquely brought to an end a certain Mr. Dockwrath's tenancy of two of the Orley fields...
Over Lukewarm Water. By the time the white-faced widow is haled before a grim judge and jury, Author Trollope has haled half of England into his novel-including the principals and extras in no less than five love affairs, a motley crew of traveling salesmen, the members of a local fox hunt, enough learned barristers and shyster lawyers (with their families and friends) to pack a small courthouse. He has also piled in so much legal lumber that a lawyer has been chosen to introduce the new edition...