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...Mass.. Joseph R. Dischino. sentenced to nine months in jail for having two wives and two families in towns only eight miles apart, was also fired from his job as a high school teacher whose main course was ''Problems of Democracy." Burning Passion. In Milwaukee. Thelma Kamuchey, 25, admitted setting ten fires in apartment buildings, garages and a trailer during a two-month period, because she wanted to see her former boy friend, a fireman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...footloose Irishman who had met and married Kate Halberstadt Bender, a young widow with two children. Kate, who had emigrated from Germany as a ten-year-old girl, soon presented her husband with two sons, Bill and Tom. The youngest of their three children was formally baptized Thelma Catherine, but Will Ryan, mindful of the fact that she was born on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, added the name Patricia. Before the baby was a year old, Kate Ryan persuaded Will to give up mining (her first husband, an engineer, had been killed in a mining accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Silent Partner | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

After nearly two years, Will Ryan died of silicosis. On the day of his death she decided to drop the name Thelma and styled herself Patricia, in memory of her father. "He always thought I was all Irish anyway," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Silent Partner | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Nonsupport. In New Martinsville, W.Va., Robert Lasure is campaigning for the Republican nomination for justice of the peace, while his wife Thelma is seeking the Democratic nomination for the same office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1960 | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Producer Hubbel Robinson's wide-ranging crew takes a crack at psychological melodrama. The Man is Audie Murphy, a demented killer at large in the home of a lonely woman (Thelma Ritter). Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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