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...neighbors cared about what passed in the house of the widow Lehrte? So unquiet were the times, and so jumpy the world, that Frau Lehrte and a young soldier out for an afternoon of fun last Week caused an excited incident in besieged Berlin. Some U.S. newspapers reported it under black headlines. Said one story: "Russian troops have opened fire inside the U.S. sector...
Donna Rachele Mussolini, 59-year-old widow of the Duce, was temporarily unhappy in Forio, near Naples, where she was living in a cold-water flat with her two youngest, Anna Maria and Romano. According to Luigi Criscuolo, who publishes a monthly newsletter in Manhattan, she was considering a job-hunting trip to the U.S. (the daughter of a peasant, she worked in the fields and did a brief turn as housemaid before she married Benito). Criscuolo said she was broke; her $40-a-month government pension had been cut off, but once she got to the U.S. things would...
...daughter of a doctor, and married to a doctor, Leslie Kent was left a widow with a three-year-old child. Then she gave up the drugstore that she and her husband had owned in Lincoln, Neb., parked her child with friends and enrolled in the Lincoln Medical College...
Larceny (Universal-International) is as slick as the two con men (John Payne and Dan Duryea) who set out to fleece a pretty, not very bright war widow (Joan Caulfield). Their plot is to persuade the lady to finance a youth center as a war memorial to her hero-husband-or rather, as a paid-up charity benefit for themselves. Their dastardly scheme is clicking along like the southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial...
Frau Koch, widow of a former Buchenwald commandant, is known as the Bitch of Buchenwald. At her trial she was convicted of having prisoners beaten to death, of using their skins as lampshades and other ornaments, and of taking part in the common design of cruelty in the camp. The most damaging testimony was presented by her own defense witnesses...