Valerie Elliot, the widow of the late British poet T.S. Eliot, with Mary de Rachewiltz,, daughter of late U.S. poet Ezra Pound, not in photo. after Rachewiltz unveiled an English Heritage Blue Plaque to commemorate the house on London's Kensington Church Walk where her father lived from 1909-14, Valerie Eliot, the widow of T.S. Eliot and zealous guardian of the poet's literary legacy for almost half a century, has died. ©AP 7:08pm

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Communist who defied Spain’s last coup

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