Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film based on Henry James' novel The Europeans to look for someone with penetrating eyes--the filmmaker or even a character--who will transform the moving picture into insightful frames. In the film the most likely character to make such critical judgments is an old Bostonian, Mr. Wentworth (Wesley Addy), a father who sets the somber, reflective tone of his family's life. But he reserves and understates his opinions, narrating the actions of his European cousins more with his expressive eyes than with his voice...
Babbitt-the state's former attorney general who stumbled into the governorship under a provision of the state constitution last year after Governor Raul Castro took an ambassador's post and his successor, State Secretary Wesley Bolin, died in office-shrugged off the company's reaction. Said Babbitt, who has since won election in his own right: "There is an extremely serious situation down there, and the management of that company has proven its inability to take care of the situation...
When a neighbor knocked on the front door of Helen and Wesley LaRoza's house in Simi Valley, Calif., outside Los Angeles, he got no answer. Yet he could clearly hear the burbling sounds of water in the fiber-glass and redwood hot tub that had been installed in their backyard. So he knocked again. Finally, when no one responded, he summoned help. The police found the LaRozas floating in the water-dead. Though detectives first suspected a double suicide, the Ventura County medical examiner, Dr. Donald Kornblum, concluded otherwise: "Quite simply, they died of hyperthermia, or heatstroke...
Columbus, the capital of Ohio, calls itself the All-American City. It has indeed produced such All-American institutions as Ohio State and Woody Hayes; James Thurber, who migrated to The New Yorker; John Glenn, of space and the U.S. Senate; George Wesley Bellows, the early 20th century painter-lithographer, who moved east; as well as the Accounting Hall of Fame, which never said "Goodbye, Columbus...
...Wesley W. Wertz...