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...port. But surviving passengers did not report feeling any sudden impact. Whatever happened, the bow doors of the cavernous vehicle deck, which was holding 88 cars and 36 trucks, suddenly swung open. The car deck flooded, causing the vessel to tip over. Peter Ford, managing director at Townsend Thoresen, the British company that owns the Herald of Free Enterprise, acknowledged that "somehow the doors burst open and the water rushed...
Raymond Nossent, a spokesman for Townsend Thoresen, the ferry's owners, said divers were still finding survivors in air pockets inside the ship more than six hours after the accident...
Both he and Louise were repeatedly arrested on an assortment of gun charges. Still, the growing Thoresen arsenal spread from room to room in their large half-renovated mansion in the Pacific Heights section of San Francisco. When the police and Government agents finally confiscated his 70 tons of weapons in April 1967, a U.S. Attorney remarked: "The guy has so many munitions, I don't know whether the Government should prosecute him or negotiate with...
...blind date in a thousand. On Jan. 29, 1958, Louise Banich, a carpenter's daughter, was what the dating-game pragmatists of the day called "fixed up" with William Erness Thoresen III. He was not only a son of the president of Chicago's Great Western Steel Corp. but tall, handsome and charming as well. At 20, Bill Thoresen was also something of a cutup. He already had a record for shoplifting violations and assault-and-battery arrests. But, as Louise explains in her account of the twelve years she spent trying to wear William's dangerously...
Bags and Bullets. William's father refused to give his son the more than $600,000 in securities that he was supposedly keeping for him in a duffel bag stashed in a large basement vault at the Thoresens' North Shore mansion. Other duffels containing Mother Thoresen's share and more than $1,000,000 worth of stocks and bonds were earmarked for William's younger brother Richard. William got what he considered his share by stealing all the bags and refusing to return any of them until his father agreed not to press larceny charges...