Word: poisoner
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...action took place in the placid reaches of Washington state's Puget Sound country, but the passion-to-poison script read more like one of Georges Simenon's Parisian chillers...
...started in 1962, when hand some, well-to-do Dr. Robert Boehme (rhymes with Mamie) was brought to trial in Tacoma for the attempted mur der of his wife Dorothy. The state charged Boehme with injecting a near-fatal dose of poison into her veins so that he could be free to marry sensu ous Mary Boehme, his great and good friend, who had previously been mar ried to his brother. Throughout the trial, Wife Dorothy spent most of her time flashing smiles of encouragement at Boehme, who was, in due course, acquitted. Three months later, his wife died...
...Poisoned Springs. "What the hell is the matter with the newspaper editors of this state?" he asked in an editorial. "The very guardians of our intellectual outposts, the very men who should be sounding the warning against radicalism, import this poison to our springs and beg us to sit and sup with them. Birchites and Communists are probably bent upon the same goals, the main one of which is the destruction of confidence in our Government. I, too, consider myself a conservative. I stand for the old-fashioned principles of this country and will fight for them, but that doesn...
...Wilfred Hyde-White and Leo Genn convey the resigned air of specialists summoned too late to be really useful. Mod sex appeal is dragged in by Shirley Eaton, fisticuffs by Hugh O'Brian. And, unlikely as it seems, there is Teen Idol Fabian, quaffing a lethal dose of poison immediately after singing a song. Fabian is the first of Indians' victims, and the luckiest. For him, the end comes quickly...
...there is one brand of poison that an advertising man supposedly fears more than a wet martini, it is an account on the rocks. Actually, Madison Avenue has had to learn to live with both occupational hazards. During the past year clients switched no fewer than 290 accounts from one agency to another...