Word: finches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense calls Dr. Finch...
...Raymond) Bernard Finch, M.D., 42, rose from his seat in the jammed Los Angeles Superior Court room and made his way to the stand. His strong surgeon's hands were steady, his greying, close-cropped hair neatly brushed, his handsome face marked with confidence and a seeming eagerness to tell his story. With that eager telling last week began the climax of a remarkable murder trial, concerning, as most do, lust and money, but also involving such elements as wife swapping and credit ratings, such characters as a self-styled lady killer, a brash mistress and a hysterical maid...
...prosecution and defense forces spun their separate versions of the murder, there grew the specter of not one but two Bernie Finches, and the key to the trial lay on the question of which was the real Finch...
...First Finch. The prosecution's Finch, as depicted in the case built by Deputy District Attorney Fred Whichello, was an immoral, sinister schemer. Though the doctor was enormously successful (part ownership of a thriving clinic, income of about $200,000 a year, a $50,000 home in the fancy Los Angeles suburb of West Covina, a 22-ft. speedboat, three cars), his marriage to Barbara was a dismal failure. It was a second marriage for both; they had met when she was his secretary and then had swapped spouses (he had three children by his first wife). The marriage...
...Dotty Kilgallen could also hold her own with her reportorial rivals in their own business: of all the celebrities covering, or attempting to cover, the Finch-Tregoff trial, she was the best known. At 46, the mother of three, Reporter Kilgallen conducts a syndicated daily gossip column, shares a daily small-talk radio program with her husband Dick Kollmar, and appears weekly on the television panel show What's My Line? In Los Angeles busy Dorothy sometimes attracted more interest than the trial itself: she posed for pictures with the defendants, signed scores of autographs for admirers, received...