Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sunny afternoon last May, just two days before Mother's Day, a parcel arrived at the two-story brick home of Howard and Joan Kipp, in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. The package was addressed to Joan, 54, a supervisor of guidance counselors in New York City's public schools. Standing in her kitchen, Mrs. Kipp tore off the brown wrapping paper and found the Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook. She opened the cover. Suddenly there was a flash, and two .22-cal. bullets tore into her chest. Kipp came running into the room and discovered...
...thick, but someone had hollowed it out and placed inside a six-volt battery wired to gunpowder and three bullets. The police were mystified, as were neighbors and coworkers. Who would want to do Mrs. Kipp any harm? Affable and popular, mother of two grown children, Joan Kipp was treasurer of the Bay Ridge Community Council and was expected to be named vice president the following month. Said her grieving son Craig, 27, to a group of reporters: "It was an irresponsible, violent act that doesn't make any sense...
Worse to come? Inside the boobytrapped book was scrawled on ominous note: DEAR HOWARD, YOUR DEAD/ BUT FIRST JOAN/ CRAIG NEXT/ DOREEN TOO/ NO MORE GAMES. The police immediately began guarding the entire family. Since the bomb went through the mail, a federal crime, an investigation was mounted by agents of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Said one inspector: "It took a lot of thinking to make that bomb...
...Phyllis Schlafly is happy about the ERA'S defeat. She is proud to deny rights to less fortunate women who have only what they can earn. Schlafly is the modern Marie Antoinette. What we needed was a Joan...
...private do not leave behind their public images. Ladd: The Life, The Legend, The Legacy of Alan Ladd reveals that the actor dwelt in a hell of insecurity that was utterly incompatible with the cool, confident screen image. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford establishes that her poised mother Joan occasionally became a hysterical, sadistic monster at home. Bing Crosby, the easygoing crooner of love ballads, behaved like a callous heel toward his first wife Dixie, if Bing Crosby: The Hollow Man is to be believed...