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...twinge of jealousy over her lumberman boy friend, the wife of a Phoenix physician chopped up a couple of the lumberman's lady friends and shipped them to California in trunks. Now-after 40 years, a sensational trial and seven escapes from mental hospitals-"Tiger Woman" Winnie Ruth Judd, 66, has been granted a commutation of her life sentence by Arizona Governor Jack Williams. If she gets the parole board's permission, the matronly murderess plans to return to the San Francisco suburb of Damville, where she was recaptured in 1969 after spending several years incognito as housekeeper...
Though Kekkonen is sometimes accused of being the Kremlin's errand boy, he has actually performed an adroit balancing act in his dealings with the Soviets. A northern lumberman's son who was once the national high-jump champion (top performance: 6 ft. in 1924), Kekkonen fought the Russians during World War I and in 1940 was one of only two members of Parliament who voted against ceding any Finnish territory to the Soviets. In 1943, however, he realized that the Nazis were losing the war and concluded that Finland would have to adopt a policy of Soviet...
...Police Chief Carl Clutts. The new chief, William Petersen, made some progress toward cooling the conflict when he took away the deputy status that had been granted the White Hats. The group disbanded, but resurfaced almost immediately in a new organization, the United Citizens for Community Action, whose leader, Lumberman Robert Cunningham, is considered excessively racist even by local white supremacists...
Died. Matilda Dodge Wilson, 83, heiress and philanthropist; of a heart attack; in Brussels. Widow of Automaker John Dodge (who left her some $44 million) and wife of Millionaire Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson, she was a director of numerous companies and a trustee of Michigan State University (then a college) from 1932 to 1938. Her most munificent gift was a $10 million package of land and cash donated to M.S.U. in 1957 for the founding of a new school: suburban Detroit's Oakland University, which now has an enrollment of 3,800 students...
Divorced. Walter Samuel Johnson, 79, multimillionaire San Francisco lumberman who gave $2,000,000 in 1959 to restore the city's historic Palace of Fine Arts; and Pauline Cook Johnson, 57, his third wife; in a double decree (she won her divorce on the ground of cruelty, he won his on cruelty and adultery); after 27 years of marriage, no children; in San Francisco, after six years of litigation and an 85-day trial that cost Johnson more than $3,000,000 in settlement, fees and court costs...