Word: trailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farm Vigil. To confront Powers with these questions, the press staged a manhunt of its own. The trail was picked up near Easton, Md., by an Associated Press stringer named Mary Swain, who had a hunch that Powers might be in a nearby estate called Ashford Farms that the Government had bought some years ago and used for mysterious purposes. Armed with binoculars, she set up a vigil in a lane adjoining the farm, noted a great coming and going of cars. One night, a blue station wagon carrying six men sped out of the gate and down the road...
Died. Edward C. Yellowley, 88, nemesis of Prohibition-era bootleggers, a Mississippi-born revenooer who harried the Capone mob with the aid of "The Untouchables," blazed a trail of shut speakeasies from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., but lost heart in New York, admitting that it would take a million agents to mop the metropolis dry; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Groucho, Harpo, and Chico romp through A Day at the Races full speed ahead, leaving behind a trail of devastated buildings, befuddled police officers, and shattered pianos. Groucho is cast as a horse doctor in disguise, Harpo as a jockey, and Chico as an ice cream vendor, but all this is merely an excuse for them to get together and start wrecking the place. It is a foregone conclusion that Harpo will ride the horse to victory and save the sanatorium of which Groucho has become chief of staff...
Hayden's father was a Connecticut Yankee who came down with "lung fever," headed West, took the Santa Fe Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping...
Checking into the quietly flossy Donner Trail Guest Ranch outside Reno, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, 54, began waiting out the six weeks' residence period required before she could sue for a Nevada divorce from New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Though Mrs. Rockefeller refused to see reporters, and her attorney, former Nevada Democratic National Committeeman William Woodburn, was scarcely more communicative, the presumption was that the grounds for the action would be the familiar Nevada catchall: mental cruelty...