Desk of Memories: What was the best...
Desk of Memories: What was the best gift Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) ever received? “The desk that was used by my father when he was ambassador to the Court of St. James,” he told Business Week, “and then was used by my brother John in his Senate office, and by my brother Robert in his Senate office, and is now with me in my Capitol Hill office . . . it provides a presence of my father and my brothers in my office, which sustains me in many ways.”
Misfortune: Federal law officials in Chicago looking into the disappearance 13 years ago of a multimillionaire candy heiress may be close to new clues. A body believed to be that of Helen Vorhees Brach will be exhumed and genetically tested, officials said Thursday. Brach controlled a $21-million fortune when she disappeared Feb. 17, 1977, and may have been buried in a shallow grave in a forest preserve south of Chicago. “We have fresh information that came out of a separate investigation,” said one official. Once a hat-check girl in a Florida nightclub, Brach married chocolate king Frank Brach in 1951 and inherited his fortune when he died.
Earhart Sighted: With the airplane that carried Amelia Earhart across the Atlantic as a backdrop, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., accepted the lost aviator’s papers from Radcliffe College. The ceremony this week came 53 years after Earhart was lost on a flight across the Pacific. For decades, the college in Cambridge, Mass., has held boxes of Earhart’s correspondence, including post-mortem letters from seers claiming to know her whereabouts.
Double Trouble: A Roman Catholic priest once accused of lying to help socialite Claus von Bulow beat attempted-murder charges denied Wednesday he stole $200,000 from his parish to support a lavish lifestyle. The Father Philip Magaldi, former head of St. Anthony’s parish in North Providence, R.I., was closed-mouthed after pleading innocent to charges of embezzlement, larceny and forgery. “A ‘no comment’ is not necessarily an admission of guilt,” he said.
