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...headmistress details her last date with the diet doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Things She Did for Love | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...Headmistress held in shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of the Diet Doctor | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...followed by the shooting of the wealthy and well-known host-but there was no need for a Hercule Poirot to find the suspect. The police arrived in time to stop the sedan and arrest the driver. Her identity was a shocker: Jean Struven Harris, 56, the well-groomed headmistress of the prestigious Madeira School in suburban Washington, which for 74 years has educated the daughters of some of America's richest and most prominent families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of the Diet Doctor | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...banker in Yonkers, N.Y., and James, 27, a Marine lieutenant. She divorced her husband in the early '60s, when she was teaching at the University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, Mich. She later was director of the Thomas School in Rowayton, Conn., and in 1977 became headmistress of Madeira. With a student body of 325 girls (tuition for boarders: $6,100), the school occupies almost 400 closely guarded acres of woodland in Greenway, Va., overlooking the Potomac River. Harris soon became known as a stern disciplinarian. She watched every detail, banning packages of crackers because she was upset about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of the Diet Doctor | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...directed the officers to the gun, which lay on the front seat of her car. At week's end a judge ordered that Harris, free on $40,000 bail, be bound over to a grand jury, which will determine what charges, if any, should be filed against the headmistress of the Madeira School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of the Diet Doctor | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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