Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow of the day before had turned into a driving rain. Hiss, the $20,000-a-year president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, walked through the rain to a subway, pursued by photographers, and rode back to his apartment on Eighth Street. There his Quaker wife, Priscilla, who was also implicated by Chambers in the tragic conspiracy, waited...
...week's end Chambers had his own personal troubles. His wife, driving through Baltimore at dusk to meet him at the railroad station, struck Mrs. Maggie Thomas, 70, who died in a hospital. Esther Chambers was charged with "assaulting, knocking down and causing the death" of Mrs. Thomas, released in $1,000 bail...
Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, 63, whose death sentence for war crimes (he supervised the bombing of defenseless Warsaw and supine Rotterdam) was commuted in 1947 to life imprisonment, returned to his prison after a ten-day leave, spent with his wife at a Bavarian lakeside resort. It was all "in accordance with normal penal regulations," his British keepers announced; before he went, unguarded, "Smiling Albert" had given his word that he would be back...
Bernarr Macfadden, 80, and third wife Jonnie Lee, 43, his bride of eight months, postponed their Christmas trip from wintry Manhattan to Florida's beaches and a second honeymoon: Bernarr was tied up at the office until January...
Louis B. (Metro-Goldwyn-) Mayer, 63, and second wife Lorena, 41, his bride of two weeks, were right on the beat; breezing through their honeymoon, they arrived in Manhattan, saw several shows, stamped a few rumbas at the Stork Club...