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When the retrial of Claus von Bulow on charges that he twice tried to murder his wife with insulin injections began in Providence last week, the media glare was even more relentless than last time. The Danish aristocrat's wife Martha (nicknamed "Sunny," for her disposition) von Auersperg von Bulow, heiress to a Pittsburgh fortune estimated at $35 million, went into an irreversible coma at Christmastime 1980 at the couple's oceanfront Newport home. An impassive Von Bulow was convicted in 1982 on two counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. But last April, after...
DIED. John Frederick Coots, 87, Tin Pan Alley-era tunesmith who composed the music for Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Love Letters in the Sand, You Go to My Head and hundreds of other songs, as well as the scores for a dozen 1920s Broadway shows, of which the best known was Sons o' Guns (1929); in New York City...
While his legal strategist was teaching classes at the Law School yesterday, Danish aristocrat Claus von Bulow began his long-awaited retrial trying Providence on charges of twice trying to murder his heiress wife...
...District of Columbia. In addition, the National Zoo installed nine live reindeer near by, and each day a traditional yule log is set ablaze. That feature proved less than popular during last Thursday's balmy weather. "That's what happens when you have a weatherman for Santa Claus," cracked red-suited TV Forecaster Willard Scott, the master of ceremonies...
...road to the President's recent 49-state electoral triumph. The First Couple have even decided on a gift for each other: a new pickup truck for the ranch. It may have been the President's second choice, actually. Asked by reporters what he wanted from Santa Claus, he responded, "Minnesota would have been nice...