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...steamer on which he was traveling ran aground. 31. Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, deranged slayer of Eileen Pahey, wanted...
...Juniors Bayard Johnson and Paul Mackey have alternated at offensive center, both were letter winners, are fairly steady ball players, although not quite in the Buddy Lemay class. Mackey will probably start this afternoon, but both should see action...
Last but far, far from least is Williams' opponent. Alexis Irénée du Pont Bayard, 34, a Democrat of aristocratic lineage, is a veteran with a fine combat record, a good speaker, handsome, suave, a Princeton graduate and now Delaware's hard-working lieutenant governor. Alexis Bayard's father, Thomas Bayard, was a U.S. Senator. So were his grandfather, Thomas Bayard Sr., his great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Jr., his great-uncle, Richard Henry Bayard, his great-great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Sr., and his great-great-great-grandfather, Richard Bassett (who was also...
What's more, the present Bayard's father married a Du Pont. In 1946, John Williams had the bulk of Du Pont support. This year the family is split, with some important elements backing cousin Alexis. Dopesters say that Ike is a bit ahead of Stevenson in Delaware but that Alexis is an aristocratic whisker in front of John Williams...
...motive? Deputy Chief Inspector James Leggett's instincts refused the idea. Could the killer have been enraged, not at the girl, but at the American Physical Society? The inspector sought out the society's treasurer, Dr. George B. Pegram. The doctor instantly suggested an oddly named suspect: Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, a former member, who had written a crackpot paper entitled "So You Love Physics" in which he argued that there was no such thing as an electron. Peakes had been railing at the society by mail for months for refusing to publish him. His letters had been mailed...