Herman tarnower biography

From the March 31, 1980 issue of New York Magazine.

It was the last Friday of the term, and tinged with discontent. This marijuana business, the expulsion of a handful of seniors for flirting with the weed, had some of the girls nervous, mutinous. But Jean Struven Harris, headmistress of the Madeira School, did not flinch. Her vision of Madeira was, as always, pure, crystalline, hostile to error. She spoke of Duty, and of Caliber, and, above all, of Integrity.

But—some of the girls noticed—Jean Harris seemed unusually ill at ease. Run-down. That Friday, she dropped in at the infirmary, where a nurse gave her some shots for anemia. She proceeded with the day’s business calmly enough—she had announced that she intended to stay on campus for the three-week break—but, showing some distress, she unexpectedly canceled a 3:30 appointment.

The girls left Madeira that Saturday morning, except for some 40-odd juniors who had holiday interns

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Herman Tarnower

American cardiologist and author (1910–1980)

Herman Tarnower (March 18, 1910 – March 10, 1980) was an American cardiologist and co-author (with Samm Sinclair Baker) of the bestselling diet book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (1978), which promoted a high-proteinlow-carbohydrate fad diet known as the Scarsdale diet.^[1] On March 10, 1980, just eight days before his 70th birthday, Tarnower was shot dead by Jean Harris. Harris was convicted of his murder at trial in White Plains, New York, in 1981.

Early and Professional life

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Herman Tarnower was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrants Harry and Dora Tarnower.^[1] He attended Syracuse University, where he obtained his M.D. in 1933. As a physician he specialized in cardiology, establishing a practice in the Scarsdale and White Plains areas of New York.^[1] During World War II, Tarnower joined the United States Army Medical Corps and was promoted to the rank

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Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower

June 1, 2010

I picked this book up at the Bozeman library book sale for $2. I think it was totally worth the $2. Since most of the action in this book took place before I was born, inom wonder if I didn't connect to it as much. It's a very interesting story of a woman who had a man who "done her wrong" and she shot him. That's not super exciting and might not have made a publishable book except that the man in question was very much in the public eye as the inventor of the Scarsdale Diet and was discovered to have had several mistresses which is shocking but was even more so in the early eighties when this crime was committed.
Jean Harris was a school teacher, the headmistress of several different schools before she ended up in jail. This book paints her early life as being fairly lonely with no good father figure, a common trope in murder cases. jean married the boy next door just to get out of the house but d