Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wells and owned 9,000 acres in cattle ranches. The relatives-a sister and four nieces-felt entitled to be watchful, for at 70, James Sexton was acting kind of ornery. That was four years ago, when he was staying at the Cleburne rest home operated by Mrs. Agnes Kirk, then 36. There, one day, he showed his appreciation to Mrs. Kirk by handing her a check for $100,000, showed his affection for her, as well, by getting muscularly amorous. Mrs. Kirk fended him off. Then the relatives stepped in: they stopped payment on the check, withdrew Sexton from...
...favorite Cleburne restaurant owner, Bessie Richardson (specialty: black-eyed peas), he left $1,000, and to his attorney he willed $10,000. The rest of his estate went to his relatives and an old friend: $100 apiece to his nieces and sister, $5,000,000 or so to Agnes Kirk...
...after, a performance of Paul Claudel's Christophe Colomb in French, with Jean-Louis Barrault, and for the kiddies a dramatization of The Wind in the Willows. Listeners could tune in talks by a pacifist, a spokesman for the Socialist Workers Party, the conservatives' conservative Russell Kirk, and a psychiatrist who testified at the trial of Leopold and Loeb in 1924. In between, music poured forth steadily-much of it by string quartets and seldom-heard modern composers. There were no commercials. All in all, it was a typical week in the life of the radio station that...
Paths of Glory. A simple, almost naive cry of horror at the waste and immorality of war, uttered with passion and eloquence by Director Stanley Kubrick and Actor Kirk Douglas (TIME...
...KIRK DOUGLAS...