Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guyon Hartwell Knight III New York City...
John Shivery Knight III was a young man with a future. At 30, he was special-projects editor of an afternoon tabloid, the Philadelphia Daily News. He had a $1,050-a-month apartment in a large building on Philadelphia's fashionable Rittenhouse Square and an art collection worth about $100,000. As a respected reporter for the Detroit Free Press, he had won an American Bar Association award. Most important, he was the millionaire grandson and a presumed heir of John S. Knight, 81, founder of the Knight-Rider Newspapers Inc., the chain that includes some 35 daily...
...evening of his death, Knight arranged a stylish pheasant dinner (he had shot the birds himself) at a local French restaurant for two house guests, his former Harvard roommate, Dr. John McKinnon, 29, a psychiatrist, and McKinnon's wife Rosemary, 27. Knight brought along Ellen Roche, an assistant manager of a bank, as well as the News' managing editor, Paul Janensch, and his wife. Shortly after midnight, the Janensches and Ellen Roche departed. Knight and the McKinnons returned to his apartment to drink brandy and talk...
Around 3 a.m., Knight received a phone call, then strongly suggested that everybody go to bed. The McKinnons retired to their guest room. Later three men entered Knight's apartment. At about 4 a.m., neighbors on the floor below heard loud noises and complained twice to the front desk. Finally, a doorman knocked at Knight's apartment. A man answered, saying they were practicing karate. Around 4:30 a.m., the three strangers, one with a pistol, woke Rosemary but were unable to rouse her husband. The men ordered Rosemary-who was undressed-to help them search...
...acting is what I do best." The Hopkins family now lives in suburban Chappaqua, N.Y. Her next role, as a woman who becomes sexually involved with another woman, has been written for her by her husband. The practical side of Shirley might find it a bit discomfiting. The professional Knight can't wait. Says she: "I want to do work that takes chances...