Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trembling lips belong to Catherine Villars, quadroon concubine of Pirate Jean Lafitte. It takes a brave man to meet her advances-in Lafitte's own Gulf of Mexico island hangout, but no one can accuse Louisiana's Jim Bowie of lacking nerve. Besides, Lafitte is dead drunk at the mo-mert. As for Catherine, who can blame her? Bowie is a bluff, broad-shouldered god, at once bold and gracious, a fighting terror whose terrible knife is to become a frontier legend, yet so gentle that a woman's touch makes him tremble...
Last week in the county courthouse, Recorder (roughly comparable to justice of the peace) Ralph Vernon heard Willa Jean's story. "As I got off the road, he came up the highway and he kept watching me," said Willa Jean. "And I ran through those woods because I was afraid . . . and I kept going, walking fast, and he kept coming on, and I got a pretty good ways ahead of him and he stopped and stood and watched me." Then, said Willa Jean, "I looked back and didn't see him any more and I stopped there...
...defense had only one point to make: What did he do? Said Willa Jean: "He kept watching me." Just how close did Ingram get to her? Willa Jean wasn't sure; "within 25 to 50 feet," she thought...
Road to Riches. The idea for the scholarships was born more than 45 years ago, in the mind of Jean Walter, a struggling young architect with a passion for travel. Each summer Walter would set out alone on a trip with enough money to get him far away from home, never enough to get him back. When his cash ran out, Walter was forced to learn to live by his industry and wits. He traveled in nine countries, worked as a farmhand, dishwasher, errand...
...Says Jean Walter, now 68 : "In my own travels, I was able to contrast the different types of architecture, and that brought me success in my building projects. I was able to study different methods of farming, and that helped me improve my colonial plantations. I was able to study mining methods, and that brought me success in Zellidja. The boys will do likewise...