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...they can move into his trailer. Floyd's working life consists of standing at the corner by the school with STOP stenciled on the back of his jacket and GO on the front of his plastic helmet. At other times he walks with his 11-year-old great-nephew, an orphan he never asked for, to the post office to tell the man in charge there how things should...
...large not to be spotted immediately or indeed, it would seem, to be Carried in his hair as prison officials claimed. Later, spokesmen at San Quentin announced that the gun was concealed under a wig, which they said they had found in the cell block plumbing. Bingham, the nephew of New York Congressman Jonathan Bingham and the grandson of a former Connecticut Governor and Senator, was suspected of smuggling the gun into the prison inside a tape recorder. After leaving the prison, Bingham had lunch with another uncle. He then disappeared and has not been heard from since. At week...
...more notable of the two escapees was Joel David Kaplan, 44, a New York businessman and nephew of Molasses Tycoon Jacob M. Kaplan, whose J.M. Kaplan Fund was named in a 1964 congressional investigation as a conduit for CIA money for Latin America. The younger Kaplan had been convicted in 1962 for the Mexico City murder of his New York business partner, Louis Vidal Jr. Kaplan claimed at the trial that Vidal, who had been involved in narcotics and gunrunning, had constructed an elaborate plot to disappear. The murder victim, Kaplan maintained, was not even Vidal, and indeed, serious doubts...
...with an intuitive sense of what products would sell and an eccentric genius for publicity. She ruled her company much the way that Catherine the Great ruled Russia-through nepotism and terror-and openly played one faction of the huge family she kept employed against another. "Go tell my nephew, what's-his-name, that he's a rotten vice-president," she once ordered her secretary. "They all want to prove their worth," she complained to O'Higgins, "but they all want to enjoy their own lives. People . . . people . . . and I'm alone! With burdens . .. such...
MILESTONES Married. Candy Mossier, 51, the softspoken, blonde Georgia belle who, after her sensational 1966 trial on a charge of murdering her 69-year-old millionaire husband Jacques Mossier, was acquitted along with Nephew Melvin Lane Powers; and Barnett Garrison, 32, an electrical contractor; she for the third, he for the second time; in Houston...