Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country editor and city reporter, Kansas-born Forrest Warren had done his share of picture-chasing and interviewing on stories of sudden death. Then, in 1913, his wife was killed by a train, and another reporter came to interview him. Warren decided that he wanted nothing more to do with that sort of work, promised himself to try instead to write things to make people happy...
...Warren took his three children and his second wife to California, landed a job on the San Diego Union. From then on, he made a career of helping others...
Last May, ill and bedridden at 71, Warren calmly dictated a column to his wife: "I have cancer and I am going to die of it." Warren told his readers that he had already arranged for his funeral, but hoped that they would pay their respects while he was still alive-by contributing to cancer research. In nickels, dimes and dollars, $32,000 poured...
Died. Major General Vernon E. Prichard, 57, chief of the U.S. Army's Public Information Division, wartime commander of the ist Armored Division in Italy; of a concussion suffered in a yacht explosion in which onetime diplomat Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. and his wife narrowly escaped death; on the Potomac River, Washington...
Salvage. In Oneida, Wis., John J. Everhard, whose wife had loaded her belongings into a wheelbarrow and left him for the eleventh time, asked the Press-Gazette to "put an item in the paper...