Word: middlesex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward Patten, 72, of New Jersey, for contributing $1,000 of Park's money to the Middlesex County Democratic Committee and saying it came from...
...preserve his skull from duggery. Relegated by Scotland Yard to a dead-end fraud investigation, he links the murder of a May fair tart to a web of political, financial and sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters of all varieties and an Arab sheik bent on making the green and pheasant land an adjunct of Riyadh. Molehill is the sixth novel by Oxonian Kenyon, 47, and the first to feature the engaging 'Enry Peckover, whose career can only...
...biggest change in New England boarding schools is, in a word, girls. Since 1970 Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton. Hotchkiss, Middlesex and St. Mark's have all gone coed. With the girls came the easing of once strict daily regimens. Traditionally, schools such as Groton and St. Paul's tried to imbue their boys with a "muscular Christianity" through spartan rigor in almost monastic isolation. Chapel at these Episcopal Church schools was required every day and twice on Sunday; supervision was so strict that at Groton, seventh-graders were given black marks for going...
Another theory presents itself. Vellucci has been out of a job since an article in The Boston Globe charged he held a "no-show" of his state job, and forced him to resign the post. But Danehy's brother John is the Middlesex County Commissioner and some people believe Vellucci might wind up with a county position. Vellucci, however, says he does not want to work anymore, and will devote himself entirely to public service. If Vellucci is true to his word, all that is left is an even deeper puzzle surrounding his decision to vote for a man with...
...resident of Cambridgeport, Clinton is a former mailman and construction company employee. He is now on leave of absence from a job as a police sergeant in the Middlesex County Courthouse. One of the two commissioners signing his appointment to that job is John Danehy, the patronage-wielding brother of Cambridge Councilor Thomas Danehy. Councilor Walter Sullivan is also an employee of the Courthouse. Clinton, Danehy and Sullivan may be independent--but not of one another...