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Authorities said yesterday that they are continuing their investigation for definitive links between a murder suspect and the disappearance of Joan L. Webster, a 25-year-old Graduate School of Design student missing for more than 14 months...
...library is actually owned by 1,049 proprietors, or shareholders. Many of them have inherited then-holdings as valued heirlooms since the last share was sold by the library in the late 1850s. (Daniel Webster, the eloquent Senator from Massachusetts, was shareholder 296; his plaster bust stares out over a young librarian using a computer.) Most shareholders contribute at least $50 a year to the upkeep of the institution, as do "life members" of the library, who achieve their status by applying with references and paying $500. Both proprietors and life members are allotted four tickets a year for "guests...
CLOSE WATCHERS of the tragedy of Joan Webster may remember a similar horror which splashed over the Eastern press in 1978--the brutal murder of 20-year-old Bonnie Jean Garland, then a junior at Yale University. While Joan's fate has been cloaked in mystery since she disappeared from Logan Airport last November, Bonnie's was all too clear. Her ex-boyfriend, himself a recent Yale graduate, killed her (with an axe) in mad jealousy at a new lover she had met on a tour with the Yale Glee Club, shortly after their breakup. He later told the court...
...reporter, you try to stay emotionally detached from the story whatever the story. And yet for me, the Webster story has become different. I find myself day-dreaming that perhaps at the next press conference, Joan will finally be there to explain...
...know that there will be at least one more news conference before the Webster story is over...