Word: laskey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laskey Bell was studious, quiet; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the wall of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley, with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage...
...though they refused his advice and pleaded guilty. (While he did not represent McCord in the criminal trial, Rothblatt is representing him in connection with civil actions and last week took a deposition from Martha Mitchell (see THE NATION). Kenneth Wells Parkinson of the Washington firm of Jackson, Gray & Laskey has already billed the C.R.P. $132,726 for defending various civil suits, and is expected to submit a second, even larger, accounting shortly...