Bolen, who called Mrs. Harris ''ma'am'' throughout most of the day, was deferential throughout. Mr. Bolen had asked her to describe why Dr. Tarnower had prescribed Percobarb, a sedative. A gift from Mrs. Tryforos, they were engraved with the word ''love. Her own response was critical. Was Mrs. Harris aware that a piece of embroidery ''this woman was working on'' had been ''destroyed'' in the doctor's house? '' Later she took the manuscript of a new book the doctor was writing to Washington ''without his permission,'' Mr. Bolen said.
''''But I hated him writing the book,'' she said, ''because I didn't want him to be called a 'Diet Doc.' Then, fixing the prosecutor with a steady gaze, she said, ''This is getting dirtier and dirtier. ''That's dreadful,'' she replied, to which Judge Leggett added, ''That means no.'' Harris told of Mrs. Tryforos arriving at the doctor's house on a hot July afternon in 1976 to ''paint the furniture'' while guests, including Mrs. Harris, were at the pool. Buchwald, Henry; Cowan, George S. M; Pories, Walter J. On March 10, 1980, just eight days before his 70th birthday, Tarnower was shot dead by Jean Harris. When Mr. Bolen, again at the beginning of a series of questions, referred to ''certain incidents in the bedroom,'' Mrs. Harris said, ''Can you be more specific?'' ''And she appeared to enjoy the occasional double-entendres as much as the audience.
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he began at one point, and her answer was an incredulous ''1976?'' She answered the question, however, saying it was for ''a bad back. ''The witness described Mrs. Tryforos as ''just one of a collection'' for the doctor and commented, ''I dried Suzanne's eye's twice when she came to me and said Lynne had tried to seduce Henri.'' Lynne Tryforos, the "other woman" in the Dr. Herman Tarnower love triangle, leaves her home in Scarsdale. A Loss of ComposureThe witness, who was headmistress of the Madeira School for girls in McLean, Va., seemed in command of herself throughout the day, on occasion mocking questions put to her or using them to make her own points. The witness described Mrs. Tryforos as ''just one of a collection'' for the doctor and commented, ''I dried Suzanne's eye's twice when she came to me and said Lynne … ''TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Harris. Mrs. Haris denied having ''anything to do with it.'' Harris was asked if she knew who had damaged the cuff links Dr. Tarnower was wearing in 1976.
''Did you know Dr. Tarnower in 1976?'' Marriage was not what I required.
Tryforos's two daughters were using the pool at the time, Mrs. Harris continued, and she asked Mr. Bolen, ''Doesn't that seem bizarre to you?'' It was one of the few ways I could be helpful to him.'' Tarnower established a cardiology practice in the Scarsdale and White Plains areas of New York. ''She mocked Mr. Bolen's cross-examination, even when it followed a routine used to establish a scene or a time frame. Murmur in the Courtroom''It shouldn't have touched his life in any way, or mine,'' she added.