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Truly Sorry. C.D.B. Bryan's Friendly Fire follows the Mullens' travail step by step. A Connecticut-based novelist (The Great Dethriffe, P.S. Wilkinson) and stepson of the late John O'Hara, Bryan spent weeks interviewing the Mullens. He conducted his own investigation to corroborate the official version of how Michael was killed. Muffling his own indignation, he tells how the bureaucracy added insult to loss. An anguished war-protest letter from Peg Mullen to Richard Nixon brought back a note from a White House clerk assuring her the President was "truly sorry" that her son had died...
Dostoevsky was under especially heavy emotional strain when he met Anna. In addition to his brother's debts, his stepson made extravagant demands on his dwindling resources. His beloved first wife had died two years previously. A bitter conflict emerged between Anna and his late wife's family for control of Fyodor's time and money, a conflict which she wins by convincing him to travel abroad with...
Cairns' performance as Treasurer was questioned again last week when the Melbourne Age published documents indicating that his stepson Phillip and associates stood to gain more than $1.4 million in commissions if the government had managed to secure a $2 billion loan from Saudi Arabia. Phillip denied the allegations and there was no suggestion that Cairns himself would have profited in any way. Nonetheless, an angry Whitlam released a letter from Cairns to a friend of his named George Harris, in which the Deputy Prime Minister offered Harris' firm a 2.5% brokerage fee on any overseas loan...
...five editions in his lifetime at a price equivalent to $65 a copy-many thousands of copies a year are still sold today-and won him a comfortable sinecure as commissioner of customs in Edinburgh. He was able to tell his aristocratic former patron, Statesman Charles Peter Townshend (whose stepson he had tutored), that he no longer needed the heavy subsidy that Townshend had been paying him in order to get by. More important than the money were the plaudits of his fellow intellectuals. It was already possible to say, as the British writer and archivist James Bonar...
...previous marriage, Braaten, 11, who had been spending the summer with his mother and stepfather. As he had done successfully several times before, Anderson was attempting to slip across the border to see his mother in Poulsbo, near Seattle; he also planned to put his stepson aboard a train to Spokane, where the boy lives with his father...