Word: herman
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...habits die hard. After 26 months in prison, Jean Harris, convicted in 1981 of murdering Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower, still dresses up for visitors in a white blouse and a single strand of pearls. "I stick out like a sore thumb," says Harris, whose lawyer last week filed a motion for a new trial. She hopes to prove that she was mentally incompetent during some of the proceedings. "I did not murder Hy [Tarnower]," insists Harris. "There is a difference between murdering and killing. It was a tragic accident." It will be another two months before the Westchester County...
Jones began running track almost as an afterthought. When he didn't make the varsity tennis squad his last spring at Northfield-Mount Hermon prep school, the Kansas City. Kansas native decided to follow in the footsteps of his brother Herman, a Mount Hermon track star, and give running a try. As was to be the case throughout his track career, he was an immediate success, winning the New England prep school association 100-and 200-meter championships...
SHANA Alexander's Very Much a lady is not the first book on the murder of Scarsdale's "Diet Doc" Herman Tarnower Moreover, because it follows extensive media coverage of the affair, it is disappointing that Alexander adds so little new. While the amount of journalistic detail she has amassed is impressive, her prose style often flounder and she colors her commentary with a maudlin sympathy for murderess Jean Harris, a woman who, in her words, "reminds...
Kennedy School Assistant Professor of Public Policy Herman B. Leonard yesterday cited these two local bridges as an example of the country's decaying infrastructure, the subject of a day-long conference at the K-School...
...1920s, Ben Hecht received a telegram from Herman Mankiewicz, a friend and fellow writer who had made a pioneering trek from New York to Hollywood. Hecht was firmly advised to do likewise: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around...