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...investment counselors, helped run the firm until his death in 1964, then took the reins herself, directing with boundless energy its four mutual funds and private-investment accounts worth $500 million from a turreted 45-room Westchester County castle; of a heart attack; in Tarrytown...
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...Russian-Polish medical-supplies salesman and his Rumanian wife, Betty Joan Perske, as she was then named, was an only child. The parents soon divorced and Betty, who has not seen her father since she was eight, was reared by her mother. She attended New York public schools, a Tarrytown, N.Y., boarding school called Highland Manor, and graduated from New York City's Julia Richman High School. She began modeling when she was twelve, "to make a little dough," and had graced the cover of Harper's Bazaar by the time she went to Hollywood...
Fundamental Fairness. Weinfeld was ruling on the habeas corpus petition of a Latvian named Almars Elksnis who killed his wife with a kitchen knife during a marital fray at their North Tarrytown, N.Y., home one hot night in June 1955. Because he had been in jail once before for another stabbing, Elksnis was a twotime loser headed for a heavy sentence. So when he came before Westchester County Judge George A. Brenner prepared to stand trial on a second-degree murder charge, he could not but accept Brenner's offer: "If you will plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter...
...Desert Island, Maine. (As a boy, Dr. Murphy was a particular chum of Nelson's brother David, now board chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank.) About ten years ago, the Rockefellers sold Dr. Murphy 13 acres near their large estate in Pocantico Hills, up the Hudson River at Tarrytown, and Dr. Murphy built himself a handsome one-story house there in what might be described as Japanese modern...