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...remained shrouded in mystery for decades, the details of the final four days of Sidney Reso came clear a little over four months after the 57-year-old Exxon International president vanished on his way to work April 29. Last week in a federal courtroom in Trenton, New Jersey, Arthur Seale, a former security officer for Exxon, recounted the grisly details as he pleaded guilty to extortion charges that could bring him up to 95 years in prison and $1.75 million in fines. Seale's plea reversal came on the eve of his trial, at which Irene Seale, his wife...
...that anecdote suggests, Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh all too often behaved like a character from one of his evergreen comic novels. Yet as Martin Stannard makes clear in this second and concluding volume of his brilliantly definitive biography, Waugh was a sad and even tragic figure. In his youth a dandified aesthete and party animal, he evolved into an eccentric, scowling, West Country squire who wore hideous tweed suits and wielded a Victorian ear trumpet like a snickersnee against enemies, real and imagined. That noli me tangere pose barely masked the inner Waugh: a self-lacerating loner...
GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Nigel Holmes DESIGN DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...
Residents were outraged when they learned of the old policy, explained by Sgt. Arthur Fitzhugh in a meeting with community members on August...
GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Nigel Holmes DESIGN DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...