Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...routine request, and the Army responded routinely. The widow of Robert G. Thompson, a World War II staff sergeant who died last October, applied for permission to bury her husband's ashes in Arlington National Cemetery. As it happened, Hero Thompson, a Distinguished Service Cross holder, was also ex-Convict Thompson, one of eleven U.S. Communist Party leaders who were convicted in 1949 of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. Nonetheless, the Army approved the widow's request...
...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 of her life and the peculiarities of her husband...
...today talking to a woman who is on trial for her life, a woman who bared her soul and tried to describe the life she lived for 15 years with the man she is accused of murdering." Joyce asked Candy: "What really happened? Who do you think killed your husband?" Replied Candy: "I think it was one of those strange people he used to pick up on the street all the time. He would waltz into the house with strangers by the half dozen. He would tell people that we were very wealthy and important and owned a chain...
...Newman noted that Candy's brother DeWitt Weatherby, a Georgia tavern keeper, was convicted in 1956 of murdering a customer; one of his defense attorneys was Carl Sanders, now the Governor of Georgia. The Miami News's Haines Colbert reported that on the anniversary of her husband's death, Candy sent newspapers some pictures of herself and her four adopted children mourning at Mossler's grave...
...they reworked the same material and rewrote the same leads, some reporters inevitably succumbed to the temptation to try the case prematurely in their columns. "Candy is positive that she had nothing to do with the demise of her rich old husband Jacques," wrote Bishop, who apparently disagreed with Jeannie. "She is equally positive that her sister's little six-foot boy Melvin had nothing to do with it. When one thinks of the 39 stab wounds sustained by Jacques, in addition to having a crystal flamingo broken over his head and the impact of a Coke bottle which...