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...prospector who amassed a fortune in sundry Canadian mining ventures, tiny (5 ft., 100 Ibs.) Viola has been under government investigation ever since a mercurial trading binge on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1964 left investors in her Windfall Oils & Mines Ltd. holding an empty sack. Called "the Queen Bee" by mining men, who elected her president of the Prospectors and Developers Association 21 times, Viola herself got stung last week when she was convicted in Toronto on a charge that could bring her up to five years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Queen Bee Gets Stung | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...onetime chairman of the city's Better Business Bureau, has also been charged with wash trading in the Golden Arrow case. And Viola herself, together with her husband, will stand trial on more serious fraud charges because of their Windfall dealings. For all her troubles, the Queen Bee remains grimly defiant. "They can't take my love of mining away from me," she said last week. "I'll have that till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Queen Bee Gets Stung | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

Cynical/Rabbinical. To watch the twelve features in the series is to watch Hollywood at its brilliant best and its wilted worst. Her earliest appearance is in Office Blues at 19, when, in spit curls and bee-stung lips, she boop-a-doops: "I hate to urge a man/But he acts like a clergyman . . . I'm so cynical/ He's rabbinical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Ginger Peachy | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

There are bird watchers and bee watchers, satellite watchers and girl watchers-in fact, watchers for just about everything. But Mrs. Charles Black, 38, once known as Shirley Temple, belongs in a category...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 6, 1967 | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...Association of African and Afro-American Students will sponsor a poetry reading by Rudy Bee Graham '69 at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Winhrop House JCR. Graham will read selections from his own poetry. The meeting is the first in a series of "Colloquiums on the Black Artist at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Reading | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

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