Word: blount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blount County Circuit Judge W. Dale Young, ruling in favor of Mary Sue Davis over her estranged husband, Junior Lewis Davis, declared that their embryos were children, not property...
Such contracts might preclude the kind of puzzle raised by a Blount County, Tenn., divorce case that is still being adjudicated. Mary Sue Davis wants her and her husband's frozen embryos kept in storage in case she wishes to use or donate them. Husband Junior Davis wishes them destroyed, arguing that their use after the divorce would force him into unwanted fatherhood...
...marriage disintegrated. Last month, when the couple began divorce proceedings, seven of the fertilized eggs remained in cold storage at Knoxville's Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. Now a custody battle is shaping up that may make the Baby M. case look simple by comparison: a court in Blount County, Tenn., must decide who gets the eggs...
...show seems to have an appealing goal in sight: a friendly kaffee- klatsch in the tradition of radio's long-running The Breakfast Club. Some of the ideas work. Bob Saget, the show's announcer and "sidekick," narrated a funny home video of his own wedding. Writers Roy Blount Jr. and Calvin Trillin were on hand with wry commentaries. And a few of the segments (like an interview with a Wall Street executive at the gym where he goes boxing before work) struck just the right, what's-new-this-morning? tone...
...orthopedic surgeon from Richmond, William Brickhouse, 35, will be there, walking the grounds that his great-great-grandfather may once have tilled. So will a Rochester chemist, William Baum, 44. Likewise the Democratic leader of the Maryland senate, Clarence W. Blount, 65; a chef from New London, Conn., Archie Dunbar, 24; an elder of the Gospel Temple Church of Christ in Manhattan, Joseph Baum, 65; one of Redford's high school classmates, Herman Bonner, 45, of Portsmouth, Va., an aircraft-maintenance manager who did not know he was kin to Redford until she began her research; and the owner...