Word: widowing
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...unmarried man when it came to the matter of an evening's entertainment." Next to men, she liked baked hot dogs and red wine. When she felt real low, she gave herself "vitamin" shots, and she often felt low because "they all go for young girls and skinny widows under 35. Nobody wants to sleep with a middle-aged old widow as big as a ginhouse roof. I haven't got a chance in the world...
Married. Congressman John Grain Kunkel, 49, shy darling of Dauphin County, Pa. Republican women, and brave host to some 800 of them at an annual squealy luncheon (TIME, May 19); and Katherine Smoot Kunkel, fortyish, widow of a Kunkel cousin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Arlington...
Died. H. Estelle Rornaine Manville, 73, socialite widow of Asbestos King H. Edward Manville; following a brain operation; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Widow Manville, enormously proud of daughter Estelle, who married the King of Sweden's nephew, Count Folke Bernadotte, was not at all proud of nephew Tommy Manville, who was having wife-trouble as usual last week (with...
Director Laszlo Halasz had heard Lyric Soprano Spence in a Broadway production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow. When Polyna Stoska, who last winter sang the role of the "composer" in Ariadne, was snapped up by the Metropolitan, Halasz sent for Wilma. He had been watching blonde Suzy Morris* almost as long. "I had already decided that she had the finest dramatic soprano voice in the entire country. She is a young Jeritza. Everybody told me I was taking my life in my hands to produce an opera with two singers who had never in their life sung...
...worth the few tunes that motivate its singers. All too often the usual operetta tomfoolery involving disguised counts and misplaced husbands is a little hard to stomach. Clark, however, patches things up nicely by injecting enough innuendo and thigh-gazing into the proceedings to make even the merry widow drop her mask. Snatching at apron strings and pinching fannies, Bobby Clark makes no bones about his slapstic; but the very fact that he enjoys himself wins over the audience...