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...jury was prejudiced against them. Defense Attorney Leonard Weinglass insisted that the five men and seven women who debated the Harrises' fate for 8½ days had been "tainted." Two members of the jury panel, who were not selected for the final twelve, accused Juror Ronald F. Pruyn of saying in advance of the trial that the Harrises' guilt was "a foregone conclusion," a claim that Pruyn later denied on the stand. An old newspaper carrying a story on Patty Hearst's kidnaping was found in a men's room used by members of the jury...
...objections of neighbors trying to exclude "undesirable elements," and despite the lavish offers of land developers, some 1,400 acres of lush Long Island exurbia-long owned by the late Marshall Field-became a New York State park. Selling the property for $4,278,000 were his widow, Ruth Pruyn Field, and the Field Foundation. With its polo field, shooting preserve, seaplane and yacht docks, the Caumsett domain was called by Long Island State Park Commission President Robert Moses-"one of the largest and finest remaining privately owned estates on the Island...
Born. To Marshall Field III, 45, Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field, 32; a daughter; in Manhattan. The baby (their second, her fourth, his fifth) was expected to become an aunt shortly, since her half-sister, Mrs. Anthony A. Bliss. 21, was due to become a mother...
Married. David Marvin Goodrich, 60, board chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co., divorced fortnight ago by Mrs. Ruth Pruyn Goodrich (TIME, Nov. 16); and Mrs. Beatrice Morgan Pruyn, his ex-sister-in-law; in Manhattan...
Divorced. David Marvin Goodrich, 60, board chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co.; by Mrs. Ruth Pruyn Goodrich; in Reno...