Word: father-in-law
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...spent the afternoon of the murder packing coal into his house. As he talked to the detectives, his wife and father-in-law stood anxiously by, corroborating his story. The cops asked him if he had seen Ted Marcinkiewicz. Joe told them Ted, a former schoolmate, had spent the night of Dec. 9 at his house...
Boettiger tossed out all Hearst diatribes against his father-in-law (as no other Hearst editor ever dared do), chopped up Pegler's copy at will, hired Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" column, set wife Anna to writing a corny, folksy "homemaker's" column. P-I circulation spurted; so did advertising. The Boettigers became Cham ber of Commerce favorites, because they helped bring big federal construction projects to Seattle. Their New Deal editorials won them labor's friendship ; their obvious love for the Pacific Northwest won almost everybody else. The hardest-bitten skeptics came to agree...
...Veteran diplomat and courtier Tsuneo Matsudaira, 68, resigned as Imperial Household Minister. Ex-Ambassador to Washington and London, father-in-law of the Emperor's brother Prince Chichibu, the suave, gin-drinking, golf-playing elder statesman was regarded as one of the last "moderate" influences around the throne. He was succeeded by ex-Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata, good friend of the militarists...
...picture starts off with a bang it never betters when emery-voiced, satchel-eyed Fred Allen takes charge of the screen and gives the interminable screen credits the kicking-around they have so long been begging for: "This is Mr. Skirball's father-in-law," he explains of Director Richard Wallace, remarking also that Producer Skirball gets his name up there twice. When that is over you enter a charade-like world which is in many respects more rational than the one it ribs, and any amount more entertaining-a world in which children are hideously overeducated and essentially...
Count Alfred Marie de Fouguereaux de Marigny, acquitted of the 1943 Bahamas murder of his millionaire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, turned up in Halifax as a third officer on a Canadian merchant ship, thought he might make the merchant marine his career. On his way to visit his wife, Nancy Oakes de Marigny, 20, he told reporters he wanted "privacy": "Until all this publicity I got when I came into Halifax, the crew respected me. Now . . . they want my autograph." The Count, who doesn't like to be called Count, asked to be "just plain mister...