Word: wife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point that bothers me about Mr. Van Doren's statement is the reference to a letter from an anonymous woman which, according to him, caused him to finally come forth with the truth. I cannot help wondering what influence his wife had, or whether she was unaware of the cause of all the torment he claims he was suffering...
...first long interview with Mrs. Rommel and her son Manfred, the Rommels were at a disadvantage. They did not know that I had the late field marshal's own headquarters war diaries, or that I had learned about his present to his wife. So when the interviewing began, it was obvious from their answers that I would not get the real story without my revealing facts I had read in the war diaries. They were nervous and reticent...
Looking out of her picture window one morning last week, Mrs. Morris Courington, wife of a Chicago merchandising executive, helplessly worried about the model suburban home going up across the street. "It just can't happen in Deerfield," she said. "It just can't." Like almost everybody else in Deerfield (pop. 10,000), a handsome, new North Shore suburb, June Courington was outraged by a homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board...
...obligation to other communities to fight." Merchandiser Morris Courington took the mike. "Some shyster came around and offered us about half what our house is worth. We called the real estate company, and they wouldn't even accept our listing." Mrs. Robert Ettinger, an engineer's wife, who moved over from Evanston after Negroes moved into the neighborhood, chimed in with word that the Ettingers had "taken a terrible licking" on the price of their Evanston house...
...Bang-Jensen himself, the victory proved to be costly. Shortly after the rooftop burning, Hammarskjold fired him for "insubordination." Nearing 50, despondent Povl Bang-Jensen set out in search of a new career to support his American wife and five U.S.-born children. He finally found a job with the CARE international relief organization in Manhattan...