The story so far: At 10 a.m. on Memorial Day 1933, Allene Lamson was found dead in the bathroom of her Palo Alto house. The deputy sheriff arrived 20 minutes later. By 10:30 a.m., the sheriff had ...

I don’t care what Jiminy Cricket sings in “When You Wish Upon a Star.” Fate is not kind. Just ask David Lamson. Lamson and his wife Allene were Stanford’s golden couple in the 1920s. David, who had ...