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...fortune. Margaret has been linked to three mysterious deaths. She was the last person to see alive her grandmother, her schoolteacher and a nun at the convent where she went to atone for the death of the first two. Now she would be happy to dispatch her wealthy mother-in-law, Hilda Damien, who is expected for dessert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death Comes With Dessert | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Before Josie Natori married, her father told husband-to-be Ken that there were "two things that you have to know in this family. One, that my wife is the commander in chief and, two, that my mother-in-law is the supreme commander in chief." Natori, 43, must rank as at least a five-star general. Merrill Lynch's first female investment banker, Natori rose to vice president of the company before leaving in 1977 to create her own firm. She started small, working in her New York City apartment, designing and selling fine lingerie. In a pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Women: To Each Her Own | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Solidarity's parliament leader, BronislawGeremek, had no comment. Walesa was unavailablefor comment, his mother-in-law said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polish Leader Abandons Bid for Coalition | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

...early to tell if the network has produced an Edsel, the bodywork so far looks good. Generations' actors are largely veterans. Taurean Blacque (Hill Street Blues) plays family patriarch Henry Marshall, owner of a chain of five Chicago ice-cream parlors. Lynn Hamilton (The Waltons) is Henry's mother-in-law, Vivian, who years earlier was a servant in the Whitmore mansion. Her former mistress, Pat Crowley (Dynasty), is the lawyer Rebecca < Whitmore, Marshall's attorney and a troubled divorcee. These three, along with members of both families, knot the skein of story lines in which soap fans so love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Soap Goes Black and White | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...sergeant's pay -- $10,000 above a patrolman's maximum. If he misses again, the next round will probably not come up for four to six years (or whenever there are enough vacancies to justify an exam). "When you take the test," says Corr, "everybody knows -- your mother-in-law, the neighbors. If you fail, everybody knows that too. It's some humiliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Centurions With Sweaty Paws | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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