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...This kind of thing doesn't have to be limited to the realm of experts," said Neta Crawford, a member of the BDG and also coordinator of the Student Network for Nuclear Disarmament, a nationwide group centered at Brown that includes over 40 other schools...
...native Dane rose early in international social circles, joining the European high society during his school days in England. He rose in the oil business and at one point worked for American petroleum billionaire John Paul Getty. In the late 1960s, he married the ultra rich Martha "Sunny" Crawford von Auersperg, a Pittsburgh utility heiress, and they lived well, if not happily, in her Rhode Island mansion. But by 1979, he became distrenchanted with her love, or hungry for her money, or both. He tried to murder her twice with insulin injections, during two successive Christmas vacations...
...hoping to win new viewers the old-fashioned way with Reuven Frank. Frank, who spent the past few years exiled to the twelfth floor at NBC, known as the elephant graveyard, is as widely admired by the staff as Small was disliked. Says former NBC News Producer Clare Crawford-Mason: "Reuven is not interested in beating people over the head with value judgments about the news. He thinks the audience is intelligent enough to make up its own mind." As an NBC News producer, Frank teamed Chet Huntley with David Brinkley in 1956, and even created their legendary sign...
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Martha von Bülow, 50, remembered as a stunningly beautiful woman, does not evoke such strong reactions. The only child of Pittsburgh Utilities Magnate George Crawford, who left her a fortune conservatively estimated now at $30 million, she was early on dubbed "Sunny" for her sweet disposition. She did all the things that rich girls were supposed to do: attending finishing school, making a glittering debut and junketing to Europe. It was on one such trip, to Schloss Mittersill, an Austrian resort famed for introducing wealthy socialites to impoverished European nobility, that she met the proverbial prince...