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...television, in films, even in real life. But the trial of Jean Harris, 57, accused of murdering Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower, 69, assumed the proportions of a national melodrama. During the three-month trial, as her precious privacy and guarded respectability were stripped away, the pitiably proud former headmistress of Virginia's Madeira School for girls became the centerpiece of a passionate drama-the old battle of the sexes, fraught with newer, feminist tonalities. In the end, the outcome seemed almost predetermined: the jury found Harris guilty of second-degree murder, of shooting Dr. Tarnower with the intent...
Jean Struven Harris behind bars is a study in incongruities. She once ran her own kingdom, the Madeira School, where heed was paid and homage given to the headmistress. She once presided over gourmet luncheons, toast and tea, with women who would come and go, talking of Michelangelo. But white gloves and perfect diction are not exactly called for in an American prison. She no longer manages an institution. It manages...
Jean Harris, high-minded headmistress of Virginia's starchy Madeira girls' school, was deeply in love with Dr. Herman Tarnower, inventor of the famous Scarsdale diet. Of that there is no doubt...
...question, however, was not one of variously requited love but of murder. The headmistress, 57, admits that she shot and killed the cardiologist, 69, on the night of March 10. But did she shoot him in a cold rage over his affair with a younger woman? Or did she kill him accidentally in a near midnight struggle over the .32-cal. revolver she had brought to his suburban New York estate, intending to kill herself after a farewell visit...
...attempt to show his client was not consumed by murderous jealousy, Harris' defense attorney, Joel Aurnou, read a Christmas poem the headmistress had written to Tarnower making light of his sexual flings...