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Bemused Beneficiary. John S. Rendleman, chancellor of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and executor of the estate of the twice-widowed, childless Powell, discovered the money in the Springfield hotel room the day after funeral services had been held in the capitol rotunda. "The closet was full of money," Rendleman said. It took three bank tellers more than four hours to count the money. Rendleman did not make the find public until nearly three months later, while he searched neighboring banks for additional funds...
After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark decided to adopt a baby boy through a state agency. Since the Burkes were young, scandal-free and solvent, they had no trouble with the New Jersey Bureau of Children's Services?until investigators came to the line on the application that asked for the couple's religious affiliation...
...summer in Los Angeles, where few of the people I chose to know admitted to visiting the Vegas scene. There were that few of course Like the married couple in the apartment next door, married in a Vegas marriage factory, no less. He a Lockheed engineer, she a childless housewife who presided over a three room apartment. They visited Las Vegas regularly. They were also quite pleased that four students had been murdered at Kent State. "That's what they wanted," she told...
...admirable sense of directorial pace eventually overcome his stereotypes and his tin ear for conversation. Even so, Bridges could not remotely have succeeded without engaging performances from Miss Hershey (the willful teen queen from Last Summer) and Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne as Jay and Suzanne Wilcox, the childless couple. The film's strength lies in the delicate interaction of the trio as they move from their far-out decision through the pleasure and pains of childbirth...
...tainists. Later on, four French fascist policemen prepared to arrest me anyway. But then an American bomb blew up police headquarters and killed the four." Unfortunately, crémieux will not be passing on his heritage. He married a Roman Catholic and considers himself an agnostic. Further, he is childless; with him, nearly 700 years of history in Carpentras will...