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There was another item of unfinished business, postponed because of the kidnaping, and that was the third marriage of Edgar M. Bronfman, 46, chairman of Seagram Company Ltd. and father of Sam. The wedding took place last week at Bronfman's 174-acre estate in Yorktown, 35 miles north of New York City. His bride is Georgiana Eileen Webb, 25, whom he calls "George" and whose name was Rita until he asked her to change it. She is the daughter of a builder and country restaurant owner from Essex, outside of London...
...specified phone booth. At 8:10 the phone rang. Using the Raven identification, the caller directed Bronfman to another phone booth, in the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines section of the terminal. He waited an hour with no further word. At 9:30 p.m., the kidnapers called the Yorktown house, telling the family to get Bronfman back to the first booth at J.F.K. They reached him and he did so. Although he waited until well past midnight, however, the phone failed to ring...
...original J.F.K. phone booth, pacing back and forth outside it for hours. Finally, the phone rang. "Not tonight ... tomorrow ... tomorrow," said a voice. One of the conspirators had apparently been scouting the terminal area and had seen Bronfman there. The arrangements were confirmed in another Raven call to Yorktown. The drop would be at 8 p.m. Friday night, same place. "No cops. No feds," warned the caller...
SATURDAY. "Where is he? Where is he?" asked an angry kidnaper in an early-morning call to the Yorktown house. "He's f----d up again." A family spokes man told the caller that Bronfman was where he was supposed to be, waiting at the Burger King. Soon a phone rang in a booth near the hamburger place. Bronfman was told to drive to a nearby location, park, and stay at the wheel...
...Britain's Lady Carolyn Townshend. Last week he was to have married another young Englishwoman, Georgiana Webb, 25, whose parents own a country restaurant (Ye Olde Nosebag) east of London. During the kidnap turmoil, the wedding, of course, was postponed-although a truckload of flowers arrived incongruously at Yorktown nevertheless. At week's end there was an entirely different reason for bright flowers, Seagram's V.O. and celebration...