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...there remained only the rumors. Some said she plunged into the river and drifted toward Martha's Vineyard; others that she was cut down in a frisbee cross-fire and buried at the Business School. A few are known to whisper of a midnight motorcycle kidnap and a shotgun wedding over two steins at Nick's (that's South of here). But Portia Parsley is now a legend, murmured at midnight over English muffins in the Bick, and remembered sometimes at a Yard punch. She never returned to North Dakota...

Author: By Sharon Kemp and John D. Leonard, S | Title: Miss Parsley's Pilgrimage | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

From FBI files last week came new evidence powerfully supporting the hypothesis that Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo engineered the international kidnaping of Basque Scholar Jesús de Galíndez from the heart of Manhattan on March 12, 1956. Released were papers of Pilot Gerald Murphy, the onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore. who flew the kidnap plane and later vanished in the Dominican Republic. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Notes on a Crime | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Next night the brother will escape, and the night after that. Arnie will hide in the hole he has dug. A short time after the nightly cell count has revealed the prisoner's absence, brother Palance will kidnap, at the point of a wooden pistol, a motorist on a highway near the prison, and later ditch the car in a residential district, where Arnie's wife will pick him up. As soon as the news of the kidnaping reaches the police, they will assume that the prisoner has escaped, and relax precautions. Whereupon Prisoner Palance will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: House of Numbers | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...firm and two eminent U.S. lawyers to find out the facts in the case of the disappearance of one of Trujillo's most impassioned critics, Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez. Trujillo's expressed hope: to disprove "fantastic charges" that Dominicans engineered last year's airplane kidnaping of Galindez from Manhattan, then killed U.S. Pilot Gerald Murphy, who flew the kidnap plane (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: On Trial | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...take a visitor out back to point out the apartment above his four-car garage. (Actually, his two Lincolns are kept in another garage.) There stay the Compound's rotating bodyguards, constantly on hand because Beck is obsessed with the notion that an unknown "they" are trying to kidnap Dave Beck Jr., a walloping 35-year-old 210-pounder. "If you were out here alone," Beck tells his guest, "you'd be pinned back up against the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dave & the Green Stuff | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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