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More than 14 hours before the verdict was to be announced, crowds began to gather outside Munich's Palace of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Tall, Cool Blonde | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...mighty bang outside an administration building of the Roman Catholic Church. Police moved in on suspected members of an anti-Franco underground, arresting dozens. Then, at the Madrid airport, Franco's agents grabbed two prominent Spaniards as they returned from a widely publicized conference of opposition leaders in Munich. Economist Dr. Jesus Prados Arrarte is expected to do a three-month stretch in the isolated Canary Islands; Monarchist Joaquin de Satrustegui will doubtless receive similar punishment. For those still out of jail, Franco's new residence decree would be equally effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: One More Step | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

With her elfin daughter Sylvia, Vera Brühne was a familiar and whispered-about figure in Munich. An elegant, well born, still icily attractive woman of 52, she loved expensive clothes, fashionable parties, the best nightspots. She also had some peculiar tastes; once she planned to hide in a Renaissance chest in her flat and watch Sylvia seduce a friend's 14-year-old son. Lurking in her background was a burly construction worker named Johann Ferbach, 49, a wartime deserter from the Wehrmacht who met Vera during an air raid in 1944 and remained with her through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Tall, Cool Blonde | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Prospective Buyer. One of Vera's lovers was Dr. Otto Praun, a suave, carefully tailored physician of 65 with a flourishing practice, a sumptuous house outside Munich, a $250,000 estate on Spain's Costa Brava. and a notorious weakness for tall, cool blondes. Their affair lasted for three years, during which time Otto gave Vera the Costa Brava estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Tall, Cool Blonde | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...Munich gossip persisted that there was far more to the affair. Vera's parties, it was said, included a clever "murder game" based on the crime. The rumors rose to such a pitch that Munich authorities finally exhumed Dr. Praun's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Tall, Cool Blonde | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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