Word: matron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's embarrassment, the usually well-behaved Swedish police had one of their worst publicity breaks in years. Discharged from the police force for assault & battery, one Tore Hedin successively murdered his parents, his fiancée and the matron of an old folk's home. Then he set fire to the home, burning five of its inhabitants to death. Just before he drowned himself in a lake, Hedin wrote out a confession in which he admitted being guilty of another murder-one which he had been assigned to solve during his tour on the force...
...Phony! The first mudpie was hurled by an old friend of the family, Dorothy Wesley Bernie, widow of Ben ("The Old Maestro") Bernie and matron of honor at the Rose wedding 13 years ago. In California she filed a suit for criminal libel against Billy, and swore out a warrant for his arrest if he ever set foot in the state. Her charge: Rose was passing around an affidavit from her onetime Negro maid, Alberta Jones, that contained obscene, "horrible lies" about sex orgies that supposedly took place in Mrs. Bernie's home and involved her, Eleanor...
Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, 58, asbestosexed playboy; and platinum blonde Anita Frances Roddy-Eden, 29, dancer and songwriter; in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was her first; she was his ninth. For a few tense seconds, Manville mistook his fianćee's twin sister and matron of honor, Mrs. Juanita Roddy-Eden Patifio, for the bride, but recovered quickly, lit a cigarette and got married (by the mayor of New Rochelle) to the right girl...
...average attitude was well expressed at West University Place by a plump young matron holding a little girl in her lap. "My first reaction," she said, "was that I didn't want my child to be a guinea pig. But then I got to thinking." Other mothers nodded, recognizing the pattern of their own afterthoughts. "It can't hurt them," the plump one went on, "so we haven't lost a thing in coming. We've got a 50-50 chance with each child of getting gamma globulin, and if we get it we know...
...letter was a somewhat indiscreet one for a young matron to write a middle-aged widower-especially when the widower was the eminent Thomas Jefferson, U.S. minister to the court of Louis XVI. Nonetheless, Maria Cosway, 29, wanted a portrait of Jefferson, and she was direct enough to write and ask for one. "It is," she added, "a person who hates you that requests this favor...