Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation was Communist Minister of Interior Yrjö Leino. His wife, lively 44-year-old Hertta Kuusinen (sometimes called Finland's Ana Pauker), is the daughter of Russian stooge Otto Kuusinen, President of the Karelo-Finnish Republic which Russia grabbed from Finland in World...
...vaudeville gag told of a conceited counterfeiter who came to grief because he could not resist putting his own picture in place of George Washington's. Osaka's aging, ailing Counterfeiter Kanji Ikeda and his wife Yoshino were not vain, but they did arrange the serial numbers on their fake bills to read as messages to the son whose death in the war had turned their life to misery and despair. One of the Arabic numbers-797,423-read aloud in Japanese, meant: "Don't cry, honorable elder...
Raphael reaches his Broadway studio by subway at 9 each morning, bringing with him, stored in his mind, some of the life of Manhattan's streets and of the lonely apartments high above the streets. By the time he catches the uptown subway to return to his wife and daughter at 5:30, the chances are that a little of that same disordered life has been transferred to canvas. "My work is factual," says Soyer. "So much art that's exhibited nowadays has nothing to do with life. I go to see the new painters. I know what...
Sidewalk Superintendent. Avon was started in 1927 by the late Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, domineering daughter of a steel millionaire and wife of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to czarist Russia. An admirer of the medieval and a semiprofessional architect, she personally sidewalk-superintended the construction of Avon Old Farms, twelve miles out of Hartford. Only hand-hewn stone and oak were used, and bricklayers had to rip out rows of crude bricks because they laid them in too straight to suit Mrs. Riddle (it cost her $125,000 to do over the dining-hall roof...
...wife of Francis J. McCormick,* a prospering Dayton engineer and importer, she went along on his European buying trips, studied every country they visited, wrote a few pieces for the Times magazine section. In 1921, when they were about to sail for Europe once again, she jotted a timid note to the late, great Carr V. Van Anda, Times managing editor, asking if she might send him some dispatches from abroad. Van Anda wired her: "Try it." She did and impressed him with her shrewd judgment of Benito Mussolini ("Italy is hearing the master's voice") when other correspondents...