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...tournament's biggest upset (TIME, July 6), went all the way to the quarter finals before losing to Britain's Ann Haydon. And in the finals, San Antonio's No.8-seeded Karen Hantze Susman, 19 years old and recently married, made short work of Czechoslovakia's Vera Sukova, 6-4, 6-4, while her proud husband, a college student, watched happily from the stands...
Different Stories. After her mother's arrest, giddy, publicity-eager Sylvia Brühne spilled an eerie story to police and press. Vera, she said, had only pretended her willingness to relinquish the estate...
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...
They found that he had been shot twice through the head - making suicide extremely unlikely. Also turned up was a letter introducing Dr. Schmitz; it had been written on a typewriter found in Vera's apartment...
...Vera was soon moved into the most comfortable cell in Munich's Ettstrasse police jail...