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...nothing more than a routine news story-at first. All he knew was that a Miami policeman, Earl Oestreicher, had been given emergency leave to go to Philadelphia because of the sudden death there of his wife. Brunt remembered Oestreicher: only two months before, he had eloped with Philadelphia Heiress Doris Jean Silver, 22, daughter of a vice president of Food Fair Stores, Inc. (fifth largest U.S. food chain) and niece of the chain's founder...
...home of a friend." That was all he could learn. On a hunch, he phoned the city morgue, found that a "Shirley Silver" had been brought in the night before. Her home address was 1500 Melrose Avenue in suburban Melrose Park, the same as that of Heiress Doris Silver Oestreicher...
When Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke sued Confidential magazine for $3,000,000 for libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called 'exposé' magazines now defiling newsstands. Let us hope that . . . the gutter journalists responsible draw a stiff jail or penitentiary sentence...
...Confidential magazine and two of its imitators, legal troubles were piling up last week. In Los Angeles Superior Court, Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke slapped a $3,000,000 libel suit on Confidential and Publisher Robert Harrison for a scurrilous article about her and a Negro handyman and chauffeur whom the magazine said she once employed. Confidential's implication of "indecent acts" is "completely and entirely false and untrue," said her suit (the fifth libel action now pending against Confidential), and exposed her to "disgrace, contempt and ridicule.'' Hollywood Attorney Jerry Giesler, who filed the suit, said...
...under Moslem law, the King is entitled to four wives at the same time). Three weeks ago in Cairo, while Queen Fatima waited in a village 115 miles away, Idris married the bride that his Premier had picked for him: black-eyed Alia Abdel Kader Lamloum, a ripened Bedouin heiress of 37. Soon after the ceremony, firmly escorted by Fatima, the aged King departed for home, leaving his new Queen behind...