Act III: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Although his Homer Ave. apartment has been sublet, Spiro is still living somewhere in Boston. In January, during Law School exams, he showed up "in disguise," as a student said, with a stocking cap pulled down over huge glasses. He paused in the hall to speak with a friend.
"He thought if he could swing a few faculty votes to his side he might ultimately prevail," the friend says. Pavlovich apparently realized plea bargaining was out of the question. He was "acutely aware that his was a precedent-setting case for loan fraud cases," the friend who spoke to him says, adding that Spiro "thinks he's got the whole world against him."
Pavlovich seems to have been confusing his own two identities. "He saw it as the University's mistake for letting him off the first time without making him promise not to come back," the friend says.
Later, though, the story was different. "Everyone just assumes Spiro Pavlovich is real," Spiro Pavlovich told the friend.
Not long after the visit to the Law School, Spiro was in Massachusetts General Hospital, suffering from emotional stress. He emerged in time for a court appearance last month, pleading "Not Guilty," and the court appointed a psychiatrist to examine him. Pretrial motions are in the offing, and Spiro-watchers are betting on a temporary insanity plea. No one knows for sure, of course, because his lawyer William P. Homans '41 is mum on the question.
Whether Pavlovich will come out in the black "after a cost-benefit study of his life," as one student put it, remains to be seen. Many students at Harvard refuse to view Pavlovich as a common felon. One friends says he feels Spiro proved dramatically that "it was unnecessary to go the prep school, Ivy route in order to succeed at Harvard." Meanwhile, a few business students sport "Free Monica Cabot" T-shirts and have written a case study on her. Up at the Law School, the inevitable Spiro jokes are incorporated in the school's annual show.
Even the University computer remembers him. It still prints out that name on class lists for his course on "Law and Business Problems: Jason...Scott...Cord....
KITCHEN DONUTS
"The late Dwight Eisenhower delighted in personally making these for family and friends."
2 Tbs. Butter 1 C. boiled milk1 Tbs. sugar 1 Tbs. light brown sugar 3 C. flour 1 jumbo egg 1 tsp. nutmeg 1 env. dry yeast 1 tsp. salt Oil
Average Yield: about 1 1/2 doz.
Add sugars to the butter. Add in boiling milk and stir. Cool 10 mins. Add the yeast and stir until dissolved. Sift together the salt, nutmeg, and flour. Add 1/2 flour mixture to milk mixture to form a batter. Add the egg and beat well. Stir in the remaining flour mixture. Cover and set aside 1-1 1/4 hrs. Knead the batter gently and roll on a floured board to desired thickness. Cut and cover. Let rise 1/2-1 hr. Fry in hot oil. Sprinkle with sugar or honey. Monica CordNew York
Harvard cooks say the recipe Monette Pavlovich submitted to the Business School Wives' cookbook was not a fraud, but "could be found in any cookbook and is nothing special--just plain donuts."