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...principals in a celebrated murder case, including the deceased. This unlikely coincidence fell into the lap of Author Anthony Haden-Guest in August 1978, when New York police arrested Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, a successful horse trainer and all-purpose entrepreneur, for the murder of a man named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side; he was an affable table hopper...
...Social Security compromise indicated that the Administration may have underestimated the common-sense conservatism of the elderly, who gave 60% of their votes to Reagan. Efforts to manipulate the conference, some delegates insisted, ended up hurting the Administration's cause. Said Milton Tupper, 67, a retired Los Angeles businessman: "They could have played a tape from Reagan in which he said, 'I hear there have been some complaints. I have asked the secretary to let you vote on each resolution.' He would have had a chorus of yeses." But the elderly should be flattered by the White...
...accident last year at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Even though Maine Yankee has a good safety record, nearby residents began to worry lest even a minor accident devastate the seacoast's $175 million-a-year tourist and fishing industries. Said former Congressman Stanley Tupper of nearby Boothbay Harbor: "There are 100,000 tourists here every summer. The only way to get all of them out would be by sea, and we could only do that if the Navy happened to have some ships in the vicinity." Led by Sculptor Raymond Shadis and his wife...
Thus ended the 40-day flight of Jacobson, 49, celebrated horse trainer and real estate entrepreneur who was convicted on April 12 of murdering John Tupper, a restaurateur and his rival for the favors of Fashion Model Melanie Cain. Jacobson escaped on May 31 by switching places with a visitor posing as his attorney and simply walking out of the Brooklyn House of Detention. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Model Audrey Barrett, 22, Jacobson drove across the country, stopping briefly in Des Moines to pick up identification papers using names from tombstones in a cemetery. The pair bought...
...escape came just three days before Jacobson was scheduled to be sentenced for the 1978 murder of John Tupper, 34, a divorced restaurateur who lived in an East Side Manhattan apartment building that Jacobson owned. Tupper had taken up with a pretty model, Melanie Cain, 25, Jacobson's partner in a modeling agency named My Fair Lady. For five years before Tupper came along, she had also been Jacobson's mistress. Two weeks after Cain broke off with Jacobson, Tupper's charred body, shot seven times and stabbed repeatedly, was found in a burning crate...