Word: father-in-law
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...Secretary Taylor has added refinements to the game, given each question a particular base-hit value. Examples: What kind of a crown did the soldiers place on Jesus? The answer (thorns) is good for one base. What relation was Annas to Caiaphas? rates a home run if answered: father-in-law. There are sacrifice flies (Give another name for Simon. Answer: Peter), and bunts (Who betrayed Jesus? Answer: Judas). The rules had to be changed when one smart boy pitcher started throwing sacrifice questions for every third...
...Talbott is a gruff, rough political boss who has ruled the Fourth as his father-in-law (and now his enemy) Ben Johnson, 85, did before him. He stage-managed the rise of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler. Arbitrary with his patronage, he antagonized many a ward heeler, earned the nickname of "The Old Bear." No one knew why he decided to run for Congress just when the Democratic ship was rocking in Kentucky. But retiring Governor Keen Johnson (no kin to Patriarch Ben) obligingly arranged for Talbott to be nominated. At the polls Talbott was exposed to "bullet votes...
Strange Silence. Few in Nassau had doubted the outcome of the trial of Count Alfred Marie de Fouguereaux de Marigny for the murder of his rich father-in-law...
Mystery, Maltese Cats. In the Bahamas, the trial of Alfred de Marigny, charged with murdering his father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes (TIME, Nov. 1), was in its second week. The case involved wealth, mystery, youth, beauty, titles, tropical lightning, Maltese cats. Newsroom trained seals and plain reporters gave it the works. With characteristic enterprise, Hearst papers hired Mystery Novelist Erie Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason), sent him down, printed daily thrillers under his name...
Count "Freddy" was standing trial for the murder of his father-in-law. Sir Harry Oakes, 200 times a millionaire, who lost his life in a swirl of head blows, flames, lightning flashes, blood and burning feathers the night of July 7 at his luxurious villa, Westbourne, outside Nassau. Freddy, who had pleaded not guilty, asked that reporters call him Mister, not Count...