Word: waller
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KIDNAP (597 pp.)-George Waller-Dial...
...that became, as no other crime ever did. a national nightmare. It had been nearly five years since "the Lone Eagle" had made his flight, and gangly, shy Charles Lindbergh was still an authentic, legendary U.S. hero-a prop-age astronaut. In an excellent piece of historical journalism, George Waller, sometime magazine editor, has vividly reconstructed both the facts of the case and the spirit of the era. Although the torrentially reported crime could scarcely be more familiar to readers over 40. the author's retracing of the events builds up an effective ersatz suspense that makes the crime...
...matrimonial side," says Van Brocklin candidly, "the players don't do badly, either. To name a few: Ron Waller, an ex-Ram, married the granddaughter of the cereal fortune matriarch, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Ron Miller, after a year with the Rams, took Walt Disney's daughter as his bride and moved into Disneyland. Bud McFadin is the husband of a young lady whose father owns half of West Texas. Bud now runs a dude ranch near Houston. Leon Clarke, the Rams' tall end, wed the heiress to the Beechnut chewing gum, baby food and allied products millions...
...THEODORE WALLER President...