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While all this was going on, a third suspect in the theft, Thomas DeSimone, 32, was reported missing by his wife. DeSimone has a record of cargo thefts and had just served time for a truck hijacking. The FBI believes he was murdered in a dispute among the thieves over distribution of the Lufthansa loot. New York police are not so sure he is dead. Also thought to be a victim of the gang's dissension was Steven Edwards, 31, an ex-convict whose bullet-riddled body was found in his New York apartment...
...such an action, and 1,000 or so similar cases have already been filed in the state, including suits by the onetime great and good friends of Rock Star Alice Cooper and Comedian Flip Wilson. Actor Rod Steiger found himself sued for $2.4 million by Sherry Nelson, his estranged wife. She is arguing that she is entitled to half of his earnings, including those in the four years they lived together before they were married. Even more bewildering is the suit, now being considered in New York State, brought by Etan Merrick against Producer David Merrick. They were married...
Even when operating smoothly, the phones' increased capabilities can create headaches. One Manhattan office worker who had called his wife at home later tried to get through to a secretary in his office. Accidentally pressing the code that redials the previously called outside number, he was again connected with his wife. Not realizing whom he was talking to, he called her by the secretary's name. Before he became aware of the situation, his wife recognized his voice. A rather strained round of apologies and explanations followed...
After graduation he served in the Air Force and then went into business in Massachusetts. He has worked for a tool company, a reinforced paper firm, and a shoe manufacturer, and he ran a heating oil company before retiring to Florida last year with his wife...
Under the aegis of programming whiz Fred Silverman, NBC has promised, with great fanfare, to improve its original programming. At ten, I caught a pilot of Mrs. Columbo, a detective series about the wife of the character Peter Falk played. So much for originality. The story, however, was a moderately entertaining formula television mystery--just substitute a new title character and rearrange a few details, and it would have been Barnaby Jones or McCloud...