Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Howe received A.B.'s from Lehigh in 1886 and from the College in 1887. In his varied writing career, he worked as assistant editor of the Atlantic, associate editor of Youth's Companion, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, and editor of the Graduate Magazine...
...Negro companion had been hired by Peel, Holzapfel said, to kill Judge Chillingworth for $2,000. Mrs. Chillingworth was an accidental victim because she witnessed the assault on her husband. The two were taken from their home to a waiting boat on the beach and taken four miles offshore. There, trussed in chains and 30-lb. weights, they were quietly dropped over the side. Mrs. Chillingworth was the first to die: "Ladies first," said Holzapfel politely, as he pushed her overboard. The judge, a strong swimmer, struggled in the water and nearly managed to escape, but a blow from...
...couriers, traveling under the name of Altmann, readily identified himself as a Czech army major and his companion as a Czech army captain. Each copy of classified government documents is identifiable by a secret mark, and the marks on the microfilmed papers pointed straight to Frenzel. Tapped on the shoulder in the Bundestag a few minutes after finishing his speech, Frenzel meekly began mumbling a confession during the ride to Karlsruhe Prison...
...most ardent supporter of Turkey's new military regime, the mass trial on Yassiada Island of hundreds of officials of the old civilian government seemed to be off to a shaky start. It was bad enough to begin with the trivial charge that ousted President Celal Bayar -onetime companion in arms to the late great Kemal Ataturk-had gypped the government in the sale of a shaggy dog. Last week the prosecution seemed intent on proving only that ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, married and the father of three sons, was indiscreetly fond of girls...
...years out of the Canadian North country, he invaded London last year. Fleet Street, which has seen many a more flamboyant press lord come and go, now realizes that Thomson means to stay. Fleet Street is in trouble. Only last month the venerable Liberal News Chronicle and its companion, the Star, folded for the simple reason that they could not make money-despite a combined circulation of more than 2,000,000. Thomson himself recently sold out his Sunday Empire News (circ. 2,000,000) and has earmarked his ailing Sunday Graphic (circ. 880,000) for early execution...