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...daughter-in-law killed to reclaim the affections of her son Frank, an owl-eyed, 30-year-old lawyer who held hands with her in public, talked with a lisp, was known around the courthouse as "Wicked Wascal Wabbit." Most explicit of all the witnesses were two Santa Barbara ex-convicts, who testified that mother Duncan offered them $6,000 to kill Frank's pregnant wife. They lured her into a rented automobile, beat her into unconsciousness with a pistol, strangled her, then dumped her body into a ditch. For all this, they complained, mother Duncan paid them only...
Opinion here on Barbara Ward has ranged from the salutation of her 1957 honorary degree: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith," to the more terse judgement from a younger faculty member: "She's vastly overrated...
...when she received her honorary degree, Barbara Ward--Lady Jackson in private life--had published her book Faith and Freedom and had just completed a term as Visiting Lecturer on Government. This year the noted corresponding editor of the Economist is back for her third spring in Cambridge. The visit is the result of a Carnegie Foundation Grant, administered through Radcliffe, making it possible for Miss Ward "to look into various aspects of economic assistance programs and their effectiveness in relation to American long-term policy." Work under the Grant causes her to divide her time between Washington, UN Headquarters...
...Both Barbara Ward and her British husband, Commander Sir Robert G. A. Jackson, chairman of the Development Commission, Government of Ghana, "are interested in almost the same things," especially the developments of "young countries." Lady Jackson's work, which springs from "inner conviction," is more theoretical than her husband's; he is more interested in administrative problems, having had extensive experience in different countries throughout Asia and Africa...
...same time, Miss Barbara Perry of Chicago, chairman of the American Youth Festival Organization, a rival of the USFC, attacked "the partisanship of the USFC...