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ANN LANDKKS
Hindsight Vision
"A creepy little man" prowling about upstairs . . . a body, its throat cut, tied to a staircase. Sharon Tate said she saw all this while spending the night alone in the former home of a man who took his own life. She told Dick Kleiner about it and now Dick wonders. . . .
Dear Ann Landers: My mother is 83 years old. I have never lived anywhere but under her roof. 1 am 65 today, a dried-up raisin of a woman, all my chances for marriage long gone, all my hopes for a career shattered. There isn't one thing you can say to help me, but perhaps you can say something to others whose lives are at a turning point women who don't know whether to move out of the house, take that job in another city, or marry that man who says. "I'm tired of waiting. It's now or never." My life is what 1 made it and 1 made it a hell. I cannot leave the house without telling Mother where I am going and when I'll be back. 1 must acbizarre beauty count to her for every penny 1 spend. ("It was papa's money, you know, and he left it all to me!" She has said that to me 1.000 times in the past 20 years.i I have very few friends left. When they come to call. Mother staircase downstairs. She sits in and talks endlessly about thought it must be a dream. She things that happened 50 years decided to find out and went ago to people we don't know. When it comes to hindsight I back upstairs. The body(Could it be her , could it be Jay?) have 20-20 vision. I know where was still tied to the stairs. The I went wrong. I was severely creepy little man was still prowl- neurotic or I would not have allowed my mother to dominate ing around upstairs. She went to bed and somehow slept. WHEN JAY came back, the next morning, he woke her. She remembered the events of the night before. It must have been a dreambut... "Hey," he called, "who tore the wallpaper off by the bar down here?" No dream. But three years later, a mile up the road, a nightmare. She and Jay both killed. Both stabbed. Three others killed, too. and suffocate me. 1 recall vividly every lost opportunity to set myself free. If youth knew what age could tell! Please. Ann, print this. It might help somebody. - Life Wasted Dear Mnple: It's not possible to do this work and not be touched by the sadness and agony oi humanity. But I resolved early to take the readers' problems seriously but not personally. There's an important distinction. People with trouble don't need someone to sit down and cry with them. They need a detached, objective observer to tell it like it is. And this I try to do. Dear Ann: How does a secretary tell her boss that his rotten cigars are smoking up her glasses, stinking up her clothing and making her sick to her stomach'1 This has been going on tor nearly a year It's gotten so bad that 1 turn green when I hear his buzzer ring. Don't tell me to come straight out with it. 1 can't. My husband is a junior executive with this firm. Please Ann. hurry your answer. I'm turning green again Gassed Dear Gassed: You aren't going to change the man so you'd better change jobs. And the sooner the better. Ann Landers will be glad to help you with your problems. Send them to her in care of The Billings Gazette enclosing a self -addressed,stamped envelope
Ann Landers
SHARON TATE,
Dear Friend: Age has told, and 1 hope youth will listen. Thanks for writing. Dear Ann Landers: A friendly ear is a tremendous comfort in time of trouble. Just having someone to talk to helps. I know. But how do you cope with all the problems that people heap on you? How do you keep from cracking up? 1 saw you a few weeks ago when you addressed a national convention in Chicago and you look so buoyant and fresh so untouched by it all. How do you keep your balance? Maple Leafer
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SHE WAS a starlet then. Sensational to look at. They thought she was going to be a big star. Maybe she would, have been. Maybe not. Anyhow, in '66, she was a girl of promise. But there was something a little strange about her. Everybody noticed it. They thought, at the time, that it was because her first feature was an oddball terror thing called "13"later they changed the title to "Eye of the Devil"and maybe she was taking her work home with her.
YOU COULD LOOK at her for hours. And listen to the nutty stories coming out of that beautiful head. I like stories of the supernatural. She knew that, and she had one. It involved Jay Sebring. And the.house in Benedict Canyon. No, not the house where she and Jay were killed. That was on Cielo, just off Benedict. But the houses can't be much more than a mile apart.
house that Birn had committed suicide. THE BEAUTIFUL girl told the story, calmly, matter-offactly. It seems that Jay was in New York on business. And Sharon was between apartments. She called Jay and asked if she could stay in the house. Of course she could.
"I SAW A VISION of someone tied to the staircase," she said. "It might have been me. It might have been Jay. Whoever it was, it was cut open at the throat." She needed a drink, for nervesteadying purposes. She didn't know where the bar was. Something told her to open a bookcase. Inside, there was a hidden bar. She poured a shot. There was some wallpaper below the hidden bar. For some reason, she picked at it, tore it away. It covered a lovely copper base to the bar. She wondered why it had been papered over. STRANGE, how the mind works. Worrying about things like that when ghosts are wandering around upstairs and mutilated bodies are tied to the
She was there that night. That dark night. She was alone. She wasn't usually spooky, but for SHARON USED to date Jay. some reason she was that night, This was before she met Roman in that house. She kept a light Polanski, the man she married. on, by the side of her bed. She and Jay went together for a "I saw a creepy little man," long time. Jay had just bought Sharon said. "He looked like the the house in Benedict Canyon. It had once been owned by pictures I'd seen of Birn." She ran downstairs. Paul Birn. It was into that house When she got downstairs, she that Birn had brought his bride, Jean Harlow. And it was in that wished she was still upstairs.
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