Word: thoresen
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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...
...GAVE EVERYBODY SOMETHING TO DO by LOUISE THORESEN with E.M. NATHANSON 346 pages. Evans...
...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...
Finally he found a girl, a handsome, forceful young woman named Suzannah Thoresen. After only two meetings, Ibsen begged her to marry him and make him "something great in the world." From the first, says Meyer, it was a marriage of creative convenience. Day after day, Suzannah packed him off to commune with his scorpion, whipped up his flagging spirits, shooed his time-wasting friends away. "Ibsen had no steel in his character," she said flatly. "I gave it to him." The steel soon made its mark. In 1863, Ibsen wrote The Pretenders, his first popular success. On the strength...