Word: elwyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bundled Body. Hefting the ax with which Ian Brady had allegedly hacked a victim to death, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones opened the prosecution's case by recounting how the police had unraveled what the press has called "the Moor Murders." The break came, he said, when the two defendants staged a murder to impress David Smith, 19, Myra's brother-in-law, who had doubted Brady's boasts about his thrill killings. After witnessing the murder, Smith rushed home to his wife, then called the police. They searched the house that Ian and Myra shared...
...Real Crisis." To an angry minority of commissioners, the church-state report seemed a weak surrender to secularism. But Dr. Elwyn Smith of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, who headed the committee that wrote the report, argued that "the question in all the matters we discussed is this: Is it or is it not an effective witness of Jesus Christ? Our conclusion was that the present practices of Bible-reading and prayer are not an effective witness." Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, who was re-elected without opposition to a third term as the church's Stated Clerk, concurred in the decision...
...Elwyn Chamberlain...
...Elwyn Brooks) White, 60, lives on a farm in North Brooklin, Me. and watches the change of seasons and the lives of men. For more than 30 years a contributor to The New Yorker, and now in semiretirement, White is a perceptive essayist; his topics range from the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun to the malaise of modern...
Charles E. Burchfield, 66; The New Yorker's distinguished Talk-of-the-Town-er E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White...