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...seemed in part the news Atlanta had been waiting for. In a statement that brought banner headlines and modest hope to the city's residents and their green-ribboned sympathizers around the country, FBI Director William Webster announced that four of the 23 murders of Atlanta children committed since mid-1979 had been "substantially solved." Webster said that these slayings were not related to the twelve to 16 believed to have been committed by one mass murderer. But, in the case of four, he said: "We're satisfied we know the cause and the persons responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Break in the Investigation? | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...case that was solvable, you can be assured that we would have made that arrest." If the commissioner was annoyed about that possibly careless FBI disclosure, his boss, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, was incensed. In a letter to the FBI director, Jackson suggested that Webster "consider the impact of your casual press statements, [which] undermine the public's confidence in our investigation and create a great deal of misdirected media speculation and invective." Added Jackson: "We need Washington's help, not more problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Break in the Investigation? | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Harvard softball team rode four and a half innings of one-hit pitching by Nancy Boutilier and Karen Pelletier to an 18-0 victory over Smith Unicorns on a very cold and windy Webster Field yesterday afternoon...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Softball Squad Demolishes Smith, 18-0 | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sir Winston Churchill (middle name: Spencer) is a cousin, as is former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Scholarly limbs include Historian Henry Adams, Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Lexicographer Noah Webster. Theatrical boughs: Humphrey Bogart and Lillian Gish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in the Family | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Despite his commitment to the team, women's sports aren't the only things which are important to Morris. In addition to his work at Webster Field and 60 Boylston Street, Morris serves as a proctor in Hurlbut Hall and as a dean of the summer school...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Kit Morris | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

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