Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Electric's first woman vice president. Mary Wells, chairman of the Manhattan agency she helped found, Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., is the advertising world's most heralded woman. Banker Catherine Cleary, president of First Wisconsin Corp., sits on the boards of A T & T, Kraftco and General Motors. Kay Knight Mazuy, senior corporate vice president of Shawmut Association Inc., New England's second largest banking firm, is an odds-on favorite to become Boston's first woman president of a major corporation...
Rosemary was struggling to free herself when she saw the third man standing over her with a .22-cal. rifle and a spearfishing gun. The thin, nervous young man told her that his partners had left him behind, and he was worried about Knight. Rosemary talked him into relaxing his guard. When he untied her, she leaped at him and wrestled the rifle away...
...Hustler. She ran into her bedroom and thrust the gun into the hands of her startled husband. McKinnon, finally awake, covered the stranger, sending his wife downstairs to call the police. McKinnon then discovered that Knight had died of multiple stab wounds. He and the intruder grappled, and the man ran into the hallway and jumped into the elevator with Rosemary. The man threw Rosemary to the floor and flailed at her with a knife. She fought for her life by kicking up at him. Although she suffered two wounds, she was able to run off the elevator when...
...news of the dead Knight's homosexuality was fully reported in the family papers. Later a sallow, sometime student, William Sage, 20, who is married, told Philadelphia police that he had carried on a five-year liaison with Knight in Detroit. Sage led police to a chest in Knight's apartment containing tape recordings of homosexual encounters, pictures of naked boys and Knight's diary-which ironically recorded the fact that as a result of analysis, Knight was beginning to like women...
KING RENÉ'S BOOK OF LOVE. Introduction and commentaries by F. Unterkircher. Braziller. $15. During the waning of the Middle Ages, these illuminated manuscripts lighted lives. The medieval characters are allegorical: the Knight Cueur confronts the enemies of Love-Denial, Shame and Fear-in his search for the Lady Sweet Grace. He finds his lady-only to lose her again, and end his days in prayer and remembrance. The story, Cueur d'Amours Espris, was written in 1457; the gold-trimmed illustrations were executed a decade later-possibly by the King himself. An informative commentary precedes each...