Word: fein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poets are fond of saying that life imitates art-but does it have to imitate television? The fact that it doesn't is perhaps the reason that 32-year-old Mark Fein last week was on trial for his life...
...prosecution told it, Fein shot his bookmaker to death in October, 1963, to avoid paying off a $23,890 World Series bet on the New York Yankees, stuffed his body into a trunk, and persuaded a bosomy, redheaded prostitute named Gloria Kendal to dump the trunk in the Harlem River for him. Somehow, the body floated clear, and when it was discovered a month after the murder, Gloria phoned Fein in a snit. "Don't you ever watch TV?" she asked him. "Didn't you ever hear of cement...
...Fein had no weakness for television, he had a couple of others to make up for it. As president of his father's thriving tin-can and cardboard-box business, he seemed to have everything he needed-the best clothes, a sleek, white Lincoln Continental, an eight-room Park Avenue apartment in which he maintained his attractive wife, Nancy, and their three children. But Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent...
...testimony, Gloria described in an incongruously little-girlish voice how Mark Fein had phoned her Oct. 10 in an obviously agitated state. He asked her to hurry over to the secret, $178-a-month apartment he maintained on East 63rd Street under the name Weissman to pursue his many outside interests. "I walked in and there was a big trunk in the middle of the living room," said Gloria. " 'What do you think is in the trunk?' " she quoted Fein as asking. She said she did not know, and he told her: " 'It's the body...
Sophomore Clive Kileff turned in a 6-2, 6-3 win over Paul Fein in the fourth match; Bob Inman downed Pete Marx, 7-5, 7-5; and Captain Sandy Walker came back from a 5-2 deficit in the first set to defeat Joel Paschow...