Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blood & Teeth. Seven months ago, while working on a feature on missing persons, Reporter Wright noticed that the two girls and five sons later born to Mrs. Moroney all looked remarkably alike. Under a picture of the family she wrote: "Would there be a 24-year-old woman anywhere who resembles these children, and who might possibly be the long-lost Mary Agnes?" Her question was answered quickly. In California, where the Oakland Tribune ran the picture, a young auto mechanic said the Moroneys looked just like his 24-year-old wife, Mary Beck McClelland, who had been adopted...
...Reporter Wright went to work in earnest. She interviewed retired policemen who had worked on the case, collected specimens for blood analysis from everyone in the Moroney family and from Mrs. McClelland. Doctors reported that, on the basis of the blood tests. Mrs. McClelland "could be" the missing child. Anthropologists compared physical characteristics, found striking similarities. Reporter Wright had dental casts made...
Reunion & Doubt. Last week Reporter Wright got a final piece of evidence. A fingerprint expert said that Mrs. McClelland's finger and palm prints showed some of the same characteristics as the Moroney family's. The News flew Mrs. McClelland to Chicago for a reunion with her "mother," carefully hidden from rival newsmen. At a tearful meeting in the News's executive offices, Mrs. Moroney whispered hoarsely, "You look like her. Mary, it's been so long." Said Mary: "Somehow it feels right...
...rival Tribune did its best to pooh-pooh it, even quoted Mrs. Moroney as saying: "My mother's instinct tells me that this is not my daughter." Mrs. Moroney flatly denied ever saying that. "I don't blame the Trib for making it up," said Reporter Wright. "What else could they do when we had the case all sewed up?" Actually, the case seemed far from sewed up. Chicago police records showed that as a baby Mary Agnes Moroney had an operation for a ruptured navel, and doctors said it would probably have left a lifetime scar...
...last 16 of which will have Curtiss-Wright compound engines, giving...