Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreman. Murphy had received a report from the FBI that James had admitted prejudice in favor of Hiss. "You are all individual jurors," Murphy said pointedly. "The foreman . . . has no authority other than to announce the verdict." Murphy talked directly to James: "Assuming that you told your wife, Mr. Foreman, or anyone else, that you thought so-and-so was lying, today I ask you as a representative of the U.S. Government to come back and put the lie in that man's face." Murphy was pointing to Hiss. James turned beet...
...wife, Bertha, and his daughter, Cherie Coppeliano, went to visit him in the death house. At lunch time, Sheridan told them: "Now, you folks go on uptown and have a nice lunch. When you get back, we'll have a nice talk." Sheridan stared after them as long as his eyes could follow. Then he called a guard...
...Phone the warden's office," said Sheridan. "Have him tell my wife and daughter not to come back, that no more visitors will be admitted . . . When I last saw them they were smiling and I was smiling. That's the way I wanted it to be. No weeping stuff." Squint had one more request: he wanted his eyes given to New York's Eye-Bank (doctors said the corneas could still be used despite the damage caused by the caustic 41 years...
Those who do not care for blue blood mixed with ordinary red remember dourly how the King's golf led him to his second wife, the commoner Mary Liliane Baels. She used to wait for Leopold at the 18th hole at Le Zoute on the North Sea, a tony resort, but not too tony for nouveaux riÇhes. Like her royal husband, she is a topnotch golfer, plays the Onex course under 80, has twice held the Club de Genève women's championship. Though she is merely the daughter of a newly rich fish merchant...
Hearth & Home. In London, Alexander Richards, suing for divorce, charged that his wife made life so unbearable that he took a job at the British embassy in Moscow after she had stuffed his best suit up the chimney and snipped the bristles off his shaving brush. In Atlanta, a divorce plaintiff reportedly told the judge that he was already separated from his wife: "She fired at me five times, your honor. I started separating on the first shot. By the fifth shot, your honor, I had completely separated." In London, Raymond Steiner was granted a divorce after charging that...