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...Village in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Snug Harbor charges a moderate $2,500 to $6,000 a week for two bedrooms and two baths, plus the use of a village-owned fleet of 22-ft. to 25-ft. cabin cruisers docked outside. About 100 miles to the north in Madeira Beach, Fla., another attractive timeshare, the 46-unit Commodore Beach Club, has been in operation since January 1981, and is already 95% sold...
...real life. But the trial of Jean Harris, 57, accused of murdering Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower, 69, assumed the proportions of a national melodrama. During the three-month trial, as her precious privacy and guarded respectability were stripped away, the pitiably proud former headmistress of Virginia's Madeira School for girls became the centerpiece of a passionate drama-the old battle of the sexes, fraught with newer, feminist tonalities. In the end, the outcome seemed almost predetermined: the jury found Harris guilty of second-degree murder, of shooting Dr. Tarnower with the intent to cause his death...
Jean Struven Harris behind bars is a study in incongruities. She once ran her own kingdom, the Madeira School, where heed was paid and homage given to the headmistress. She once presided over gourmet luncheons, toast and tea, with women who would come and go, talking of Michelangelo. But white gloves and perfect diction are not exactly called for in an American prison. She no longer manages an institution. It manages...
...fenced-in "country clubs" favored by Watergate felons and other white-collar convicts. Her home will be the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, 47 miles northeast of New York City. Despite its red brick colonial buildings and its playing fields, Bedford Hills is a long way from Madeira. Outside there is a 12-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire; inside there are 360 two-story cellblocks...
Pale but primly attired in a tan silk blouse and wool skirt that would have made a Madeira mother proud, Harris described for the court in harrowing detail a growing desire to kill herself, an urge compounded by Tarnower's infidelity and her own job pressures. Things were not going well at Madeira. Harris had disciplined a student for sorority hazing, and, more recently, expelled four others for evidence of marijuana use. Then she received a critical letter from the girl who had been the victim of the hazing. The school's trustees were beginning to question Harris...