Word: father-in-law
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...down to the wire. If there is only one Senator who supports him, that's the way it is going to be." Julie said that the transcripts portrayed "a human being reacting to a difficult situation." But David acknowledged that the documents revealed a new side of his father-in-law. Said David: "It is not the same guy at the family dinner table." Saturday evening, Nixon delivered the commencement address at Oklahoma State University. To the crowd that greeted him at the airport he declared: "I have that old Okie spirit, and we never give up." Then he flew...
...Deals. In the Hearst home, the mood at week's end was grimmer than ever. There is no more talk of possible deals to free Patty. Weed was a frequent visitor and often stayed at the Hearst home until he and his prospective father-in-law had a mild run-in over Weed's public statements about the case. Now he lives with friends, visiting the family only occasionally...
During his five years in Paris, Jefferson was attended by his quadroon slave girl, Sally Hemings, who-to complicate matters-had been fathered by his father-in-law. Though she could have technically claimed freedom in France, Sally and her oldest son remained slaves when Jefferson returned to Washington in 1789 to become Secretary of State. Although the details of the relationship have never been clear, Brodie claims that in 38 years Jefferson had seven children by Sally Hemings. Her prominent place in Brodie's biography offers one of the few rational clues to Jefferson's ambiguous position...
Sprague assembled some 100 witnesses, including two convicted triggermen: a house painter named Paul Gilly, 42, and a Cleveland drifter, Claude Vealey, 30. Their fee for the murder was $15,000. Gilly told the jury that he was hired for the job by his father-in-law. Silous Huddleston, who in turn, testified Gilly, was hired by union officials. Gilly was told that an official involved was Boyle. The murder plan was simple: "Kill 'em and leave no witnesses...
Died. Margaret Leech Pulitzer, 80, historian who twice won the literary prize established by her father-in-law; of a stroke; in New York City. The wife of Joseph Pulitzer's son Ralph, she wrote three undistinguished novels and was co-author of a play before turning to history in the 1930s. She won her first prize in 1942 with Reveille in Washington, a portrait of the nation's capital during the Civil War; in 1960 she received the second award for In the Days of McKinley...