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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 walls 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...
...Laskey Bell was studious, quite; 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...
...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...
...Convicted for stabbing a white secretary, Laskey was believed to be "the Cincinnati strangler" who killed five women in a year; no similar murders have been committed since his arrest last December...