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Stoessinger admits now that he "did not immediately reveal the full extent" of his knowledge of her dealings. His subsequent cooperation with federal authorities will, however, probably win him more lenient treatment when he is sentenced on concealment charges next month. As for his ex-mistress, she faces from five to ten years in the slammer on fraud charges if she loses her case. It is expected to go to the jury next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Love and Leverage | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...transformation occurs in Act II the following morning. Hirst bounds into the room and greets Spooner as a long-lost classmate and friend from Oxford. As they reminisce, the talk turns to sex. Hirst reveals that he had seduced Spooner's wife and enjoyed her as his mistress, while Spooner makes some equally jarring sexual revelations. Then, Spooner makes an eloquent and persuasive case for his staying on as Hirst's personal secretary. As the curtain falls, it looks as if an edgy ménage à quatre has been formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Gamesmanship Galore | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...year was reprimanded by his House colleagues for "financial misconduct," won a 19th term without Republican opposition. California's seven-term Democratic Representative Robert L. Leggett, 50, got lucky beyond belief: under investigation for alleged payments from the South Korean government, he also admitted that he had supported his mistress and their two children in Washington. But the disclosure came after his district primary, in which he was easily renominated, and Republicans had put up only token opposition. Leggett thus won two more years of breathing space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House: Spirited Still | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...about his pubescent niece and his rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion"). Falstaff acknowledges that there was a report of his death at the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap some years earlier but explains it as a harmless charade, staged with Mistress Quickly's help, to cool the passions of his creditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Babble of Green Fields | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Soul! "I should say that my soul was about the size of Spain, though in a better spiritual condition ..." Hey, Mistress Quickly! Another round for Robert Nye and his fat friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Babble of Green Fields | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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