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...attraction, as has the houseboat where Cunanan put a bullet into his own skull after setting off one of the most intensive manhunts in recent history. A book published this fall, Death at Every Stop: The True Story of Andrew Cunanan--The Man Who Murdered Designer Gianni Versace, by Wensley Clarkson (author of Slave Girls), added a few new details to the once inescapable but now nearly forgotten Cunanan legend: he reportedly fathered a child and starred in two "graphic, low-budget, sadomasochistic gay pornographic videos." In a tribute to the speedy turnover of news cycles, few media outlets paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Howard S. Wensley, a staff member at the Massachusetts Board of Public Health, said yesterday that Harvard officials called him Wednesday to explain that building renovations are delaying the heating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B&G Says All Dormatories Will Have Heat By Tonight | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

Henry Greenwood, head of a kind of latter-day British East India Company, is in a running fight with his fellow officers to liberalize the company's treatment of its Hindu employees. Armin Wensley is a multilingual young Foreign Office expert bent on improving Anglo-Indian understanding. Laura Johnston is a ravishing brunette who prefers Armin to her busy Blimp of a husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exotic Marshmallow | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...thousand other villagers of Wharfedale, Waldendale and the emerald green valley of Wensley were joined in their hunt by a posse of army lads equipped with walkie-talkies; at one point they thought they had him surrounded, but the murderer fled to a stretch of wild country where no man could follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Killer | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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