Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Justice John M. Harlan worriedly pointed to the case of Lee E. A. Parker, who devised a novel gambit for getting out of Oregon State Penitentiary, where he was serving a life sentence for murder. Parker sent his wife to find which of his jurors had been most hesitant to convict...
...having heard some allegedly prejudicial remarks made by the court bailiff who had shepherded the jury during their 26-hour deliberation. For one thing, they claimed to have heard him say: "Oh, that wicked fellow, he is guilty." For another, the bailiff apparently had assured them that if convicting Parker turned out to be a mistake, "the Supreme Court will correct...
Increasingly, tourists in search of Hawaii's fabled charms look beyond Oahu. Jackie Kennedy visited Laurance Rockefeller's ranch house at the 265,000-acre Parker ranch on the "Big Island" of Hawaii this summer. Barbara Hutton tried the Royal Lahaina Hotel on Maui. Lynda Bird picked Kauai for her latest trip...
...also proliferating in the Neighbor Islands. Empress of the group is Laurance Rockefeller's $15 million Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Among its attractions: rooms and promenades full of Polynesian wood carvings, inner courtyards luxuriant with bamboo, hibiscus and banana trees, plus exclusive rights to canter over the Parker ranch with jovial Hawaiian paniolas (cowboys) and a challenging 18-hole $2,000,000 golf course. Since its opening in July, 1965, Mauna Kea has been virtually S.R.O. It is raising its rates this month to $51 and $65 for a double, including two meals...
...with Max Schuster. When Cerf showed interest in replacing him, Simon arranged for Cerf to meet Horace Liveright for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel, Scotch-and-watering place for the famous authors and wits of the day. "There," he says, "were Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker-all of them! Sitting at the Round Table! I was delirious! In the middle of the lunch, I called Wall Street and told them I was never coming back...