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- <text id=91TT1098>
- <title>
- May 20, 1991: Writer's Sell Block
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 65
- Writer's Sell Block
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By JESSE BIRNBAUM/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> New York State law restricts criminals from profiting from
- their crimes by selling their story to publishers or the movies.
- Too bad for Jean Harris, the onetime private-school
- headmistress, who is serving 15 years to life for the 1980
- shooting murder of her lover, Scarsdale Diet author Herman
- Tarnower. Harris wrote an autobiography, Stranger in Two Worlds,
- and wants to donate the $98,000 she earned from the book to a
- fund for prisoners' children, but the state court of appeals
- said forget about it. Tarnower's surviving relatives have five
- years in which to lay claim to the money; otherwise it could
- revert to Harris.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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