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With his bronzed good looks, silky sales pitch and dangerous smile, Leather Importer Iran (yes, that's his name) Michael Kesselman, 41, found it easy to dazzle women and men alike into doing his bidding. They put him up, made his airplane reservations, introduced him to buyers for chic West Coast boutiques and took him to celebrity-studded parties. Some of Kesselman's admirers became so enthralled, federal investigators found, that they even peddled drugs...
...Kesselman proved so elusive that at times Inspector John Stafford felt as if the character he was tracking were more fictional than real. Stafford, who works for the U.S. Marshals Service, spent 3 1/2 years looking for Kesselman in connection with British charges of cocaine trafficking and money laundering. "He was a charmer," says Stafford. "He was mobile, smart, bounced around to all these different spots, and you couldn't get a handle...
...Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman had its genesis in a famous French murder case that inspired Jean Genet's The Maids. In 1933, in Le Mans, Léa and Christine Papin killed their employer, Mme. Lancelin, and her daughter. Kesselman has retained the names of the sisters, but otherwise the play is very much her own. The playwright focuses on mother-daughter relationships, intimate sisterly affection and a rigid class structure that borders on the feudal droit du seigneur...
...meal ticket from Elsie's. Other winners were Bruce Denny-Brown '60, four free haircuts from Harvard Barber Shop; John Harte '61, two free LP records from The Turntable; John S. Hammond '59, free cleaning of a suit every week until Christmas vacation from the Gold Coast and Morris Kesselman of Brookline, a 4x5 in. color transparency from Ferranti-Dege...
Commenting on the chances for Stevenson's success, Kesselman said, "I am quite sure that our efforts this year in Cambridge will give Governor Stevenson an even greater majority here than in 1952. The enthusiasm of the workers has far surpassed our most optimistic estimates...