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Medical experts who testified against Dr. Chester B. Rosoff, associate professor of surgery, said during the eight-day trial that his patient, the late Phyllis Thrope of Arlington, probably would have survived if Rosoff had done more to diagnose her disease...
...first necessary to get the cast of characters straight. There are five principal actors in the bizarre Rosoff saga: 1) Jo Oppenheimer, 39, tousled, troubled and wealthy; 2) Adolph ("Dolph") Rosoff, 52, a familiar Greenwich Village character, who is now languishing in jail; 3) Thelma ("Teddy") Sucker Feldman, 51, his longtime companion and a self-styled therapist, who is also in jail; 4) Micah, 25, Teddy's son by a 1945 marriage, who spirited David away on Dolph and Teddy's instructions; and 5) the missing David, who is now twelve, the offspring of Jo and Dolph...
...large advertisement in the Sunday New York Times was as intriguing, if somewhat less informative, as anything in the huge paper's news columns that day. "Has anyone seen my son David Rosoff?" it asked. It showed a picture of a small boy wearing a cowboy hat. Below the picture was a date more poignant than the question: the photograph had been taken in 1968. TIME Correspondent Marion Knox explored the strange story behind the ad and sent this report...
...sharkskin suits. The Wellesley Kid bought a round of drinks. A. G. Vanderbilt and wife were there for light conversation. A very live spirit from the past--when Arnold Rothstein won $850,000 on Sidereal, when Pittsburg Phil was in his heyday, when Diamond Jim Brady and Subway Sam Rosoff ate much and bet more, when a "handy guy like Sande was bootin' them babies in," and when the Grand Union Hotel would serve any dish if there was twenty-four hour notice. There is still some of this around. There are still faceless bettors with the thick glasses...
Some 200 people were eating lunch in Rosoff's Restaurant, also on 43rd Street just east of Times Square, when a Lincoln Continental sedan driven by Paul Bonadio, 59, shot out of a parking garage next door, caromed off the opposite curb and zoomed straight through Rosoff's window into the bar. Three people died in the shambles of glass and metal, and six others were injured...