Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person that Scotland Yard would very much like to talk to about the robbery is Stephen Patrick Raymond, 30, a dapper, self-confident redhead who had worked for several months as a shipping clerk, filling in customs and transit forms, at Purolator's London office-until he failed to show up after the weekend of the theft...
Chronic Nuisance. Purolator had not been exactly thorough in checking his credentials. In 1964, at the age of 18, Raymond was convicted of armed robbery. Paroled early, he was arrested again and returned to prison to finish his sentence. He appealed to Labor M.P. Tom Driberg (now Lord Driberg), who had a long record of espousing libertarian causes. Driberg interested himself in Raymond, his constituent, at one point even writing a letter to the Times arguing that Raymond should be released to marry and attend university, thus preventing him "from being a chronic nuisance to the public and a permanent...
Barry Haight, attorney for Louis R. Mathis, one of the robbery suspects, named Raymond "Rip" Palmer as the other assailant in an affidavit filed with the clerk of the Middlesex Superior Court...
...Mozart by Glyndebourne's first conductor, Fritz Busch, sound inevitable today: original languages, a minimum of bel canto fireworks and intimate orchestration as Mozart scored it. Venetian operas now returning to the international repertory were first revived here only a decade ago under the direction of Musicologist Raymond Leppard. Glyndebourne's current showpieces are the neglected conversational operas of Richard Strauss, Capriccio and Intermezzo. They were staged for the lustrous Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom under Administrator Moran Caplat's dictum of "hiring people we know and exploiting them at what they want to do." To succeed retiring...
...stature. Despite McShane's claims for his subject as "one of the most important writers of his time," the author saw himself with less extravagance and literary pomp. "The best mystery-story writers," he once wrote, "are those whose perceptiveness does not outrange their material." As always, Raymond Chandler was master of the exit line...