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Retirement seemed out of the question for 69-year-old Grace Coolidge. Down from Northampton, Mass., with a youngster's snap-eyed enthusiasm, the widow of the 30th President of the U.S. saw the World Series in Boston, looking for all the world like a travel agency ad plugging the good life in New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Flesh & Spirit | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Lehrte's activities. She lived in the southernmost part of Berlin's U.S. sector, on Landshuterstrasse, a pleasant street which runs across the fateful boundary between Berlin and the surrounding Soviet zone. Lately an increasing number of Russian officers had walked over the boundary to visit the widow Lehrte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Incident at the Widow Lehrte's | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...been made by a single bullet. Dozens of eyes peering through curtained windows saw the Russian walk unsteadily up the steps and enter Frau Lehrte's house. Soon he walked down the steps and into a nearby orchard, where he leaned wearily against an apple tree: the widow Lehrte was not home, and the Russian intended to wait for her return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Incident at the Widow Lehrte's | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Satira's old Chicago nightclub boss gleefully announced plans for "big bookings in New York." A competitor offered to put Satira on a double bill with Mee's widow, another "exotic dancer." Said Widow Mee: "I don't have any hard feeling for that girl, but after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Big Bookings in New York | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Died Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 87 widow of the 26th President of the U.S.; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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