Word: owner
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...days before he died, Mulcahy rented a spartan one-room cabin at the Mountain View Motel Court in the sylvan Shenandoah Valley. Last Monday he drunkenly fired a shotgun at his cabin door, and the motel owner suggested he leave. Mulcahy lugged five suitcases, three of them packed with his files on Wilson and Terpil, out to his pickup truck. The motel owner locked the door and left; Mulcahy apparently stayed. Early the next morning, after a chill night of 40° temperatures, his body was found slumped against his cabin. His pants were around his ankles. Inside the cabin...
...Nesseth, acting in concert with De Lorean, defrauded her of several million dollars in the 1970s after she hired Nesseth to manage her affairs. De Lorean and Nesseth in 1976 took over a failing Wichita, Kans., Cadillac dealership. After reneging on various agreements, they were sued by the former owner and a local bank. De Lorean leased his 3,000-acre Idaho ranch to Clark Higley, a local farmer, then mortgaged the ranch for $880,000 in 1976 and defaulted on the mortgage. Higley was evicted. Says Higley: "De Lorean is as smooth as silk. His henchman, Roy Nesseth...
Only the dealers have anything to cheer about now. At week's end some were predicting a dramatic rise in the price of the car, and Capitol Cadillac Co., a De Lorean dealership in Lansing, Mich., was negotiating to buy the entire U.S. inventory. The owner of the dealership, Don Massey, estimates that there are some 400 cars to be had, and he said on Friday that he had a deal to buy 100 for an undisclosed price...
...reaching for something bigger, a Fiddler on the Roof of Western civilization with self-deprecating navvies suffering every slight of outrageous fate, from wars to plagues and back again. Elkin's overview is encapsulated early on when the first George tarries too long before a glorious tapestry. The owner stays the blow of an impatient courtier, allows the stableboy an additional moment of art appreciation and then adds, "When you've done, go out quietly." That, implies the author, is the history of the commoner before his betters. But in Elian's retelling, everyman proves uncommon...
Citing Frank Cardullo's "faithful and loyal service," the Greater Boston Association for Retarded Citizens (GBARC) named the owner of the Wursthaus Restaurant their 1982 Man of the Year award...