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...when they or their family members enjoyed Act I of the musical romance Nord-Ost (North-East), then found themselves immersed in a real-life tableau that unfolded in horror. "My late husband always joked that musicians and prostitutes will be safe under any regime," says Valentina Khramtsova, widow of Fyodor Khramtsov, a trumpet player in the show's orchestra. "Little did he know that this regime would kill the musicians, too." The family was seeking $1 million in damages, Khramtsova said, "to make the officials remember that their office is a job, not a privilege, to ensure that nothing...
DIED. JEAN KERR, 80, witty, self-deprecating writer; of pneumonia; in White Plains, N.Y. The widow of New York Times drama critic Walter Kerr, with whom she wrote several plays, Kerr had her greatest solo hit with Please Don't Eat the Daisies, a best-selling collection of vignettes about domestic life that became a movie starring Doris Day. Kerr said she did most of her writing while waiting in the car for her six children. "There is nothing to do but write after I get the glove compartment tidied up," she said...
...that parents deliberately make bad choices, says estate lawyer Colleen Barney, co-author of Best Intentions: Ensuring Your Estate Plan Delivers Both Wealth and Wisdom. Rather they operate under dubious assumptions, as Elizabeth Shen, 66, a widow and mother of six in Arcadia, Calif., did when she approached Barney about estate planning. She had decided to appoint her eldest son and daughter co-executors, without telling them first. Barney suggested that she invite all six kids to the planning meeting. When the topic came up, Shen's eldest daughter, who travels a lot, didn't want the responsibility. Says Shen...
...DIED. JEAN KERR, 80, American author and widow of drama critic Walter Kerr, whose farcical portrayal of married life and show business resulted in the best-seller Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) and the Broadway hit Mary, Mary (1961); in White Plains, New York. A colorful collection of everyday oddities, Please Don't Eat the Daisies was made into a movie with Doris Day and David Niven in 1960 and an NBC television series from 1965 to 1967. At the height of her success, Kerr remarked: "It's pretty good for a girl who tried writing to justify...
...Sugihara's 89-year-old widow, Yukiko, is the suit's plaintiff of record, but the case's true motivator is Katsumasa Watanabe, the mastermind behind Japan's burgeoning Sugihara-deification industry. He owns Taisho Shuppan, a small Tokyo publisher that produces books on only two subjects: railway history and Sugihara's heroism. Watanabe says he was "blown away that such a man existed in Japan," after happening upon a TV documentary about Sugihara in 1991. Watanabe immediately sought out Yukiko Sugihara and published her two memoirs along with three biographies of her late husband. These days, Watanabe leads...