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...states shelled out more than $3,000,000 in pensions for Confederate veterans, their dependents and the Negro servants who followed them into service. The veterans themselves now numbered fewer than 100 (highest number in one state: 14 in Mississippi). But Confederate soldiers are still survived by 5,000 widows. Notable example: 79-year-old Helen Longstreet, widow of famed General James Longstreet...
Died. Mina Miller Edison, 82, widow (second wife) of Thomas A. Edison; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. She was a noted supporter of the G.O.P. (but not during Democratic son Charles Edison's successful campaign for governor of New Jersey), of the Chautauqua Institution (cofounder: her father, Lewis Miller), and of the temperance movement...
Frau Koch's husband, the former commander of Buchenwald, was long since executed in one of his own butcher chambers for mishandling Nazi party funds. For the last two years his widow has been kept in closely guarded U.S. Army prisons. Despite this, she was eight months pregnant...
...receipts. In the filming, Father was a major effort in Technicolor fidelity to an original. Every scene added to the cinema version was developed from the original sketches of Clarence Day, and the picture was made under the supervision of Playwright Howard Lindsay and of Mr. Day's widow...
Investigation of the missing royal jewels of the late Princess Hermine, widow of Germany's last Kaiser, was dropped as an internal German affair by the U.S. Army's C.I.D. yesterday as they released Fraulein Vera Herbst, reputed consort of Hermine's son, Prince Ferdinand...