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...There had always been rumors that Scher and Patricia had been in the middle of a torrid love affair before her husband died--a rumor they denied repeatedly. Dillon's father, for one, always wondered about the autopsy report and never believed the death was an accident. Says Bonnie Mead, who was Martin Dillon's secretary: "We don't know why people put blinders on in this town." Nevertheless, the elder Dillon kept his peace until his grandchildren were older. In 1989 he hired a private investigator to review the evidence and by 1995 had got the authorities to exhume...
...week. If they discount his dramatic account of self-defense and find him guilty of first-degree murder, Scher may be sent to prison for life. (His crime predates the state's reimposition of the death penalty.) "We fought this battle to get answers for a long time," says Mead, who sits with Lawrence Dillon during the trial. "This should have been done...
...water-ski market, a sizable chunk considering that there are 30 million water skiers worldwide. Most regard Arizona as the Alps of water skiing. In a recent survey of WaterSki magazine readers, the Grand Canyon State claimed three of the top five destinations: Lakes Powell, Mead and Havasu...
...There had been noble churches in the U.S. before, but none as boldly resplendent in space and decor as Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church (1872-97) in Boston. There had been libraries too, but none as ambitious as the great Boston Public Library (1887-95), designed by McKim, Mead & White. The library was the first major public building in the neo-Italian Renaissance style that was to become de rigueur in formal architecture. It expressed the praiseworthy idea that the citizen is the reason for the state; that public architecture should be generous, bold and finely built...
...Mead's 800-acre Fine Paper plant is the city's largest employer, with 2,500 workers. One day last year the plant ran an ad for extra crew members; 10,000 people applied for about 50 slots. That's because the jobs are secure, the benefits good and the starting wages well above the area's average of about $6.50 an hour...