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...researchers' benefactor was James M. Jacobs, who owns J August Co. on the Square and a great deal of expensive ham radio equipment tucked away in his home on a hill in Brookline. Begining the morning after the assault, he spoke daily with officials of the hospital in Cuenca where the victims were being treated, and with the American Embassy in Quito. Every morning he connected the home phones of the Nortons and Paynters into his 4000-mile radio hookup, and they were able to follow the progress of the victims as if they were in the neighborhood hospital...
...adds up to an ideal recipe for bringing out the ham in the nation's press. Some 40 reporters from around the U.S. were covering the trial last week, and still more were expected. Until the jury was impaneled late last week after protracted argument, the press focused its attention on blonde, blue-eyed Candace Mossier, 45, who is accused along with her nephew, Melvin Powers, 24, of complicity in the bludgeoning and stabbing of her millionaire husband Jacques Mossier in 1964. And Candy was taking no chances on reporters' losing interest; she regaled them with the sorrows...
...culinary consultant" to the Hamilton Beach Division of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Racine, Wis. Le metier: touring the U.S. to demonstrate electric blenders and knives and whoop it up for the company cookbook, which recommends such delicacies as hamburger soup, crab-meat corn chowder, and baked honey-orange ham slice...
Police Cleanup. Germany's DEMAG steel company this year is sending out lithographs, some up to 150 years old, that depict 19th century ironmaking, and Bertelsmann, the Westphalian publishing house, will give hampers filled with Westphalian ham, pumpernickel and Steinhagen, a German gin. France's Banque Dupont will send a classic Eversharp desk set with two pens. Dujar-din, the cognac maker, is distributing an auto distress kit complete with blinking light. NK, Sweden's leading department store, sends out an LP record called "Music from Creative Sweden," while the Skandinaviska Bank distributes great straw plant baskets...
Pollviane Oxenreider played Dorine. Mariane's maid. She's not a commediene, but a ham. If you like that sort of thing, however, she's a very energetic...