Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finding that 4% is like betting on a two-year-old maiden race. Two publishers turned down the manuscript of a Gilmanton, N.H., housewife named Grace Metalious before Publisher Julian Messner gambled...
...manufacturer who secretly consorted with gamblers and prostitutes. Last year Fein received a 30-year-to-life sentence for murdering his bookie to avoid paying a $23,898 World Series bet. To shield her three children from the seamy publicity, Fein's wife Nancy sought to resume her maiden name of Nahon. Permission granted, ruled Judge George Starke last week. Not only has Fein lost all civil rights, from suing to voting to making contracts; any contract he ever made in the past is void, including his marriage. Indeed, Nancy Nahon is free to remarry, though not until...
...lives in "one small corner" of Headington Hill Hall with his French-born wife and eight children, devotes mornings to his business, afternoons and evenings to Parliament, to which he was elected as a Labor M.P. two years ago. Characteris tically, Maxwell was the first member to make his maiden speech. "I was glad he waited until the Queen finished," sniffed one critic. Maxwell shrugs off such gibes. His ambition now, he says, is "to halt the retreat of our country." As a start, he is flooding the market with texts, handbooks, tapes and films to help companies cope with...
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. The Lord himself, therefore, will give you a sign. It is this: the maiden is with child and will soon give birth to a son whom she will call Immanuel...
Gerold Frank, best known as a ghost biographer (Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon), identifies the criminal as Albert Henry DeSalvo, 34, a jug-eared, powerfully built amateur boxer and onetime reformatory-school inmate. A resident of Maiden, Mass., where he lived with his German-born wife and two small children, DeSalvo was a semiskilled factory hand and an over-skilled sex deviate. In 1961, he confessed that he was the "Measuring Man," who for more than a year had talked his way into the apartments of gullible women...