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The Heir, The Miss Universe, and a Night the Sky Collapsed
The Heir, The Miss Universe, and a Night the Sky Collapsed
Fear of a private life that's never explained: a hotel heir who wrote a six-page pamphlet on communism, rose to national prominence at 25, and 43 years later died in a private plane crash near Burbank-how do those convulsive public moments connect to the silence he kept? What did G. David Schine know and why did he never answer?
In this episode, we tell the life events laid out in the record: his upbringing in a hotel empire, the 1952 pamphlet that led him to Roy Cohn and McCarthy's subcommittee, his 1957 marriage to Miss Universe…
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