Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Chicago Candy Tycoon Frank Brach died in 1970 at the age of 80, he left $21 million to his third wife, Helen, a former Miami country club hostess who had married him 18 years earlier. Thereafter, the 58-year-old widow became a recluse, living in a stone mansion on seven wooded acres in suburban Glenview. She consulted a fortuneteller by phone almost daily and produced a drawerful of psychic writings while in a trance-like state. Suspicious of most people, Mrs. Brach preferred the companionship of her nine thoroughbred horses and three mongrel dogs. She seemed close...
From the beginning, investigators have focused most of their suspicions on Jack Matlick. In the seven years after Frank Brach's death, the muscular onetime deliveryman practically became lord of the manor. He directed workmen around the estate and took care of business for "the missus." He knew every detail of her life, even that she stored a lock of her hair in an ivory box in her bedroom. Says John Demand, a former detective who participated in the investigation: "I had the strange feeling that Matlick had taken over her entire personality." He even used her glasses...
...swings gracefully from mood to mood-from hostile confrontations to hysterical shrink sessions to intimate and comic romantic interludes. She even dances a daffy Swan Lake in her T shirt and panties. Though An Unmarried Woman is otherwise populated by busted couples, Clayburgh and Mazursky make a sublime pair. - Frank Rich...
...Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, will present a report on alternative meal plans at a meeting of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) tomorrow...
...with 16:45 left in the game, Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin shifted the tempo in the Crimson's favor with a fullcourt press, Cy Booker hit for a deuce and Bob Allen connected on consecutive shots to narrow the margin...