Word: washburne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife of a prominent local architect, had tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas. He told newsmen he thought Architect Weaver himself was the guilty man, expected to arrest...
...GOLDEN PRINCESS, by Alexander Baron (378 pp.; Ives Washburn; $3.95), is a novel of high adventure telling how Hernando Cortés conquered Mexico with the aid of his Indian mistress. Skeptics to the contrary, English Author Baron is dealing no joker from the historical deck; it really happened that way. Malinali, or Marina, as the Spaniards christened her, emerges as a tawny tidbit just turned 18 and just about Cortés' first Mexican conquest. Intelligent and fearless, she soon comes to share his council as well as his bed. On the long, fierce road to the golden...
...York; Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. '29, President, Cincinnati & Suburban Telephone Co.; Clarence C. Little '10, Director, Rosco B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Malcolm E. Peabody '11, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, Syracuse; Nicholas Roosevelt '14, author, Big Sur, Calif.; and H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, of Boston Science Museum...
Professional Father (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS) has Actor Steve Dunne pretending to be a child psychologist in what are described as "all kinds of hilarious adventures." Helping him to make a chump of himself are his wife, Barbara Billingsley, and the inevitable two children (Ted Marc and Beverly Washburn). As a psychologist, Dunne advises other fathers how to deal with their children but, naturally, it takes his all-wise wife to set him right on how to handle...
...CAPTAIN CALLED IT MUTINY (236 pp.)-Frederic F. Van de Water-Ives Washburn...