Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They met after a tent meeting near her home town of Amesville, Ohio, and began dating. One night last month, after he had picked her up at home to get an ice-cream cone, they headed for Las Vegas instead to get married. Last week Donald Melvin Boggs, the studious-looking ex-convict, and Radcliff, his willowy, olive-skinned girl friend, were arrested in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was charged with a six-day, three-state crime wave in which four men were bludgeoned and shot to death...
...letter he had received from the mother of a serviceman. He then de cided to hold his first press conference in a month on the very day the G.O.P. paper was to appear. Outmaneuvered, the Republicans, led by Michigan's Jerry Ford and Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, hastened publication of their humbler, mimeographed effort by a day, misnumbering the pages in the process...
Diverted Thief. The answering machines are only mildly Buck Rogerish compared with Marcom Inc.'s call diverter. A thumb wheel is set with the number where the owner will be, and incoming calls are transferred there. Lawyer Melvin Belli has one, switches early-morning calls to the hamburger stand where he breakfasts. And since the call is transferred without the caller's being any the wiser, the device should be a boon to wayward husbands or junior executives who have slipped out for a quick pick...
...fatal. According to Miami police, Mossier left a note: "If Mel and Candace don't kill me first, I'll kill them." While Candace fled to the Mayo Clinic for more migraine therapy and treatment for what she calls "too many red corpuscles," the Miami cops extradited Melvin Powers, 23, Mossler's burly nephew. As police told it, Powers, who was Candace's longtime lover, jetted over from Houston the day before the murder, crushed his uncle's skull with a king-size Coke bottle and jetted home next morning. Said Candace on hearing...
...tomorrow, and I just wanted to see what the competition will be." Both were heading for the annual convention of the Model A Restorers Club, which ended last week. As it turned out, the competition was too stiff for both Mrs. Jack Larson from Union, Conn., and Trooper Melvin Thorpe. On hand were 287 of the world's bestpreserved Model A's. Except for a few of what most competitors scornfully call "stretcher cases" (cars brought by trailer), all of the A's were driven from their home towns, and one had made it from San Diego...