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...according to bank lawyers, that his unwitting sugar daddy was none other than Allied itself. By using a paper shuffle involving financial notes called bankers' acceptances, Wiggins, starting in the early 1970s, helped himself to $16.7 million from Allied's international department, say the lawyers. Says Barbara Hecker, 39, a former girlfriend: "I used to ask him why he stayed on at the bank when it seemed he could make so much more money raising and selling cattle. Now I know...
...after a good start in the first Bach sinfonia, the orchestra began having trouble. Failing to complement a fine oboe solo by Robert Hecker, the strings evidenced poor, high-schoolish intonation in the second and third sinfoniae and in general let the music control them. The sinfoniae were further flawed by a glaring absence of dynamic contrast and formal clarity...
Father Isaac Thomas Hecker was in hot water. The 37-year-old Redemptorist had arrived in Rome to discuss with the head of his congregation a matter that was troubling some of its members in the U.S. -the best way to preach the Roman Catholic faith to Americans. Within a few days, he found himself expelled from the Redemptorist Congregation on the ground that his trip had violated his vows of obedience and poverty. For the next seven months, the worried priest hurried from prelate to prefect, pleading the need for an English-language mission to the U.S. At last...
American Methods. The Paulists' first century began with little more than Isaac Thomas Hecker's burning conviction that he, the son of German immigrants and a convert from Protestantism, was called to make new converts among the new people of a new country. He and his four companions-all converts and one (Father George Deshon) a West Point graduate-set about the task by making his society as American as they could...
...veteran male marksmen to do it. In Dallas, wearing her regular plaid shirt & tweed skirt, despite the heat, she won the 20-gauge (100 out of 100) and small gauge (98 out of 100) competitions, for a split of the major women's titles with Mrs. R. H. Hecker of Tucson, Ariz. Of the big 12-gauge gun, Carola says: "It begins to get very heavy and very long after a little while...