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...first necessary to get the cast of characters straight. There are five principal actors in the bizarre Rosoff saga: 1) Jo Oppenheimer, 39, tousled, troubled and wealthy; 2) Adolph ("Dolph") Rosoff, 52, a familiar Greenwich Village character, who is now languishing in jail; 3) Thelma ("Teddy") Sucker Feldman, 51, his longtime companion and a self-styled therapist, who is also in jail; 4) Micah, 25, Teddy's son by a 1945 marriage, who spirited David away on Dolph and Teddy's instructions; and 5) the missing David, who is now twelve, the offspring of Jo and Dolph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MYSTERIES: Where's David? | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...began in a Village coffeehouse in 1961 where Jo, then a 25-year-old receptionist from Chicago, met Dolph and Teddy. The three hit it off, and the group, including Micah, agreed to live together as a free-style "family," sharing everything, including sex, in Jo's Washington Square Village apartment. Some shared more than others: Jo paid most of the family's communal expenses out of her $60,000 yearly income from stock dividends and a trust fund set up by her father, who owned a sausage-casing company. "We had somewhat of an open family," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MYSTERIES: Where's David? | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Convicted, Burns was given a nastily precise sentence: ten years and one day. That meant he would not be eligible for early probation. Last week a court rejected a final motion for appeal. Meanwhile, a campaign by Burns' supporters urging Governor Dolph Briscoe to exercise his executive prerogative and reduce the sentence has brought no action. So this week, after his motion for appeal was rejected, Burns, 31, is scheduled to go behind the walls to start doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: Getting Stoney Burns | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...Texas, Dolph Briscoe...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Democrats Sweep Governors' Races | 11/6/1974 | See Source »

Last week LeMaistre was under pressure from Governor Dolph Brisco to justify Spurr's firing-the latest in a series of power plays at a highly political university. LeMaistre had, in fact, already told Spurr why he was dismissed. But the information was delivered during a private meeting and never put in writing. With good reason. The real charges according to Spurr: he had cut back on the lavish cocktail parties the university threw for wealthy contributors before football games; he had not cracked down on the student paper, The Daily Texan, which treats the regents with a notable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bushwacked in Texas | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

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