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...David C. (for Curtis) Stephenson, 62, onetime Grand Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan, who used to regard the state as his own feudal barony, won his freedom from the state parole board. He had spent nearly three decades in prison, where he languished amidst delusions of persecution and grandeur, for committing one of the most sensational sadistic murders of the '20s. In 1925, he forced a state government clerk named Madge Oberholtzer to board a train with him and, while his bodyguards stood by, brutally ravished her in a lower berth. After they...
Married. William Orville Douglas, 56, Fair -Dealing, globe -trotting Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; and Mrs. Mercedes Hester Davidson, 37, longtime friend, admirer, and researcher for the Justice's last three travel books; both for the second time (her first: onetime Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson); in Tallulah...
Died. Frederick C. Miller, 48, president of the Miller Brewing Co. (Miller High Life), director of the Milwaukee Braves and the Green Bay Packers, former spare-time "honorary coach" of the Notre Dame football team; and Frederick C. Miller Jr., 20, Notre Dame student; in a private-plane crash; at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field. An All-America tackle and team captain at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and a sportsman ever since, Miller took over the family brewery in 1947, with shrewd advertising (for year-round, quality trade) and an expanded plant and distribution network nearly quadrupled annual...
There was little doubt that Pat McGinnis would receive many complaints; his practices had not lived up to many of his promises during the proxy fight last spring with Boston's Frederic C. ("Buck") Dumaine. McGinnis had promised more express trains, longer loading platforms, bigger parking lots for commuters along the road. So far, the only noticeable improvements were two enlarged parking lots...
MISSISSIPPI'S ROBERT C. MILXER, 37, who borrowed $3,000 to open a Shell Oil distributorship when he was 21, now owns businesses grossing $20 million annually, including an export-import company, real-estate holdings in Jackson, Miss. (including a ten-story office building), Milner Products Co., one of the world's biggest makers of pine oil deodorants. With four auto agencies, he is the South's biggest Chevrolet dealer. Milner's income: about $1,000,000 annually, of which he keeps half, since much of it is in capital gains...