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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...
Three years after Jean Harris fired four bullets into Herman Tarnower, the case of the headmistress and the diet doctor still has the power to engage our imagination. The public's appetite for details of the murder trial had been whetted by the social standing of the protagonists, as Diana Trilling pointed out in her brilliant 1981 study, Mrs. Harris. But the abiding fascination of the case resides in the story of the high-minded, stylish lady who descended to the depths of self-abasement and violence...
Just like "Pug" Henry, the fictional naval officer in Herman Wouk's The Winds of War, Al Wedemeyer secretly met at 10 Downing Street with Churchill and in the White House with Roosevelt. Wedemeyer felt Roosevelt's demand for unconditional surrender in 1943 was a grave error, compelling Germany, which might have turned against Hitler, to fight to the bitter end. Wedemeyer's closest friend from the Kriegsakademie was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who planted the bomb that nearly killed Hitler...