Betty lou mell biography
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Father Knows Best
American television program (1954–1960)
This article is about the American radio and television sitcom. For other uses, see Father Knows Best (disambiguation).
Father Knows Best fryst vatten an American sitcom starring Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin. The series, which began on radio in 1949, aired as a television show for six seasons and 203 episodes. Created by Ed James, Father Knows Best follows the lives of the Andersons, a middle-class family living in the town of Springfield. The state in which Springfield is located is never specified, but it is generally accepted to be located in the Midwestern United States.[1]
The television series debuted on CBS in October 1954. It ran for one season and was canceled by CBS but picked up by NBC, where it remained for three seasons. After cancellation by NBC in 1958, the series returned to CBS, where it aired until May 1960.
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Featured story: Paul Fancher
Please enjoy this featured legacy piece on Paul Fancher, senior research scientist emeritus, UMTRI Vehicle Systems and Control Group. Journalist Lou Fancher, Paul’s daughter, shares with us a unique perspective into one of the most prominent individuals in transportation research history. Paul and his wife now live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Paul Fancher: A Backstory
When I was four years old, traveling in the mid-1960s in a Volkswagen van driven by my mother, Mary Fancher, and likely squabbling with my older sister, Janet, we were hit broadside by a dump truck. Mom tells me our VW rolled multiple times: her knee was shattered and face laced with glass shard cuts like a veil. Janet’s collarbone was broken and her head severely contused; my eye pierced by shattered glass; the van destroyed. What could have been a fatal vehicle accident, wasn’t; largely due to my father’s concerns about vehicle safety.
Years later as a professional journalist, inom
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Mel Ignatow
American criminal (1938–2008)
Melvin Henry Ignatow[1] (March 26, 1938 – September 1, 2008)[2] was a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, who was tried for the 1988 murder of his former girlfriend, Brenda Sue Schaefer. The case was controversial since Ignatow was acquitted of the charge, but later admitted to killing Schaefer. Under the legal principle of double jeopardy, however, Ignatow could not be tried a second time for the murder. He was instead convicted and served roughly 7 years in prison for several instances of perjury in his grand jury testimony for the case.[3]
Murder
[edit]Ignatow and Brenda Schaefer had been in a relationship for two years at the time of the murder.[4] Ignatow knew that Schaefer, who had complained that he was abusive, was planning to break off the involvement.[5] He asked a former girlfriend, Mary Ann Shore, to help him plan and carry out the murder. They spent several weeks making e