Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth attacking, that they liked the author and met him frequently, and to be nice to him in private and publicly nasty would seem uncalled for.'' One example of the deceptive consequences of this attitude was the novels of the late Charles (The Fountain] Morgan. ''His last two or three novels," notes Spender, "were received with almost the same praise as his earlier ones. It was only apparent when he died, from the obituaries, how the bottom had quietly fallen out of his reputation...
...HELEN MORGAN...
Selby then told his problems to Patra Mae Bounds, who worked at his favorite massage parlor, and she put him in touch with a Negro fortuneteller named Maggie Morgan. Wax-wigged Maggie Morgan got a promise of $1,500 from Selby and a key to his house, arranged for an acquaintance of hers to work in the Selby home as a maid. One day Maggie went to his house to study the layout and plan the murder, found Wilma Selby at home, coolly sat down at the piano to play and sing a hymn, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross...
...Maggie Morgan finally found a man to do the job, a 300-lb. hulk named Clarence Collins. One evening Joseph dined by candlelight with his wife at the fashionable Colonial Club. After dinner, at his suggestion, Wilma dropped her husband off downtown, drove on home by herself. When Selby got home his wife was dead, shot twice with a .22-cal. pistol...
...conceded the head of one firm, "winds of change are blowing." Last week John Morgan & Co. dispatched swatches of material, in blues and greys, from which Senator John F. Kennedy will pick his fall suits. Another firm was making 30 suits for a Texas tycoon. Thirty Savile Row firms now have agents in the U.S., and some do 90% of their summer business with American tourists. Under pressure from such lucrative customers, most will now cut suits along slimmer American lines, and some have even consented to make drainpipe trousers devoid of "turnups" (cuffs...