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After the crimes were uncovered in October 1981. Probst was tired and the two holding companies were dissolved Probst settled the case with the university in a private civil suit and returned the money to Princeton in installments this year but the Mercer County district attorney's office decided to prosecute Probst criminally...
Yale Coach Steve Gurney praised his two winners "Freshman Hugh LaBossier is a very tough player," Gurney said. "To beat a player like Geordie Lemmon is certainly an achievement Certainly Mercer Bullard played well against Dinneen. I think his concentration was better than usual...
...time: it was an ordeal to be borne. In 1918. as a young mother of five children, she was crushed, but not quite destroyed, to learn that her dashing husband, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was having an affair with her own pretty social secretary, Lucy Mercer...
Some of this has been told before, by Lash himself. What the new book brings to E.R.'s story is an appreciation of the degree to which, after her armed truce with F.D.R. over the Mercer affair, she found and gave her own kind of affection. One of the first of these idiosyncratic friendships was with Louis Howe, an early political aide of her husband, a man described as ugly and misshapen, an impossible choice for a lover. Yet her daughter Anna was shocked once to find her sitting at Howe's.feet as he stroked her hair...
...been acquiring porcine memorabilia for seven years. Chicago's Charles Braverman, a commodities trader in pork bellies, owns, among other items, a $2,000 brass pig dinner bell, a $2,400 pig ashtray and a 100-lb. lead pig, which adorns the front of his house. David Mercer, 36, a former lawyer who started Boston's Hog Wild! in 1978, mails the Hogalog catalogue advertising his "Pork Avenue Collection" to 30,000 subscribers at $1 apiece...