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...person" when he entered the Olde Milford Inn-an observation that was supported by the testimony of several patrons. But what if Soronen was drunk? the defendants went on. That would have made his accidental death the result of his own "contributory negligence." In either case, Frei and the tavern argued, they were not liable for damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: More Protection for Drunks | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

From Outer Space. When they tired of too much Candy, reporters came up with surprising sidebars. The Chicago Daily News's M. W. Newman noted that Candy's brother DeWitt Weatherby, a Georgia tavern keeper, was convicted in 1956 of murdering a customer; one of his defense attorneys was Carl Sanders, now the Governor of Georgia. The Miami News's Haines Colbert reported that on the anniversary of her husband's death, Candy sent newspapers some pictures of herself and her four adopted children mourning at Mossler's grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: The Armored Lady | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Schickele explains solemnly that he first stumbled on P.D.Q., whose existence was known only "from police records and tavern lOUs," while touring a Bavarian castle in 1953. To his amazement, he says, he found the care taker using a piece of manuscript as a strainer for his percolator. It turned out to be the Sanka cantata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concerts: Properly Neglected | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Shea worked for Little and Brown publishing company for 20 years before World War II. During the war he worked in Four Rivers shipyard. He owned a tavern for several years before he came to work for Harvard seven years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caretaker in Lamont Dies of Heart Attack | 1/5/1966 | See Source »

...apparatus now known as the Central Intelligence Agency had a Revolutionary War ancestor called the Culper Ring. America's first espionage agents-a whaler, a tavern keeper, a Quaker merchant, Schoolmaster Nathan Hale-were very ingenuous spies. The members referred to each other by numbers, wrote their messages to General Washington in disappearing ink called Sympathetic Stain, and were totally hangdog about their calling. "I've lived four years of my life in fear," one of them is supposed to have said, "and I'll live the rest of it in shame." Author Corey Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Nov. 19, 1965 | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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