Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear up at least some of the mysteries still shrouding Patty's 19½ months with the Symbionese Liberation Army as Captive Patty and Comrade, willing or not, Tania Hearst. But unless and until Patty takes the stand, the overwhelming presence in the legal drama will not be the Hearst heiress herself but the man who will press her case in court: Boston Attorney F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey...
...judge is presiding over the federal bank-robbery trial of Patty Hearst, 21, the publishing heiress who was kidnaped by members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army from her Berkeley apartment two years ago and then took part in their criminal and revolutionary activities. As the jury selection proceeded, mostly behind closed doors, some 100 reporters representing publications and broadcasting stations throughout the world milled around outside the court and enlarged on trivia: the court had approved Patty's request to have her long hair trimmed in jail; someone had sent her an application for an American Express credit...
After successfully eluding most photographers for the past 35 years. Actress Greta Garbo has now done her famous disappearing act for a Swedish court. The former film star, 70, recently inherited $720, but court officers have been unable to find the heiress in New York, where she lives most of the year. Their latest ploy: a missing persons' notice in the Swedish government newspaper, Post and Inrikes Tidningar. "I don't believe Greta will take the money," mused longtime Garbo friend Countess Kerstin Bernadotte, 65. "Perhaps she'll send it to poor relatives in Sweden...
...vita turned really dolce for Marisa in 1971, when Luchino Visconti signed her for her first film as the elegant young mother in Death in Venice. Bob Fosse then hired her to play the German-Jewish department store heiress in Cabaret. Both parts required Marisa to appear both remote and vulnerable. She is very good...
...Sears official somewhat lefthandedly: "We are in for the long pull. We aim for a broad middle market, which militates against jumping quickly in and out with new merchandise. Bloomingdale's is clearly one of a kind." Among customers there are carpings about high prices, crowds and service. Heiress-Actress Dina Merrill likes the store's ice cream and housewares but buys no furniture there; she says the prices are too high. Sniffs Ilene Barth, editor of a Manhattan weekly newspaper: "People who go to Bloomingdale's don't trust their own taste...