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3 10 A Sunday. April 1, 197!) Philadelphia Inquirer And that was the last anyone heard There were so many alternatives." For all her gifts, Holly Maddux had little apparent ambition. "She didn't have any burning job in her particularly," said Mrs. Flanagan. Another friend said Holly had sometimes felt sad and despondent, unsure of her goals.

Holly returned to Bryn Mawr, graduating in 1971 with a B.A. in English, then left for a walking tour of Europe and Israel. A photo snapped at Kennedy International Airport in New York shows her with a wistful expression, long hair framing her face and streaming down her back. HOLLY From 1A ling evidence that led directly to Einhorn. Last week, with the discov-? ery of Holly MailJux' remains in a 9 trunk in Einhorn's closet, the 18- month mystery of her disappearance "ended.

But friends and family in flat little Tyler (population where Helen (Holly) Maddux had bloomed like some exotic flower in a back- yard garden, are still grappling with the deeper enigma of her gothic 'death, "It was like destroying a beautiful crystal or a jade tree that some gnarled Chinaman crafted 1,000 Several Philadelphia friends of the couple none of whom would talk on the record if their names were used painted the picture of a woman who could not come out of the shadow of an enormously well-known, energetic, sometimes brusque man. The couple, they said, argued a lot. The arguments, they saifl, became more and more intense, and sometimes he knocked her around. Penny Jeannechild, an instructor in the Free Women's School at the University of Pennsylvania, recalls that "Holly enrolled in my peer counseling class in the spring of 1976. She was trying to leave Ira, but (Continued on next page) odd jobs in Philadelphia in a bakery, a grocery, at TV Guide and at two food co-ops.

No one in Tyler knows when or how Holly met Ira Einhorn, Philadelphia's celebrated counterculture philospher. But by 1975, they were living together. And they made one unforgettable two-day trip to Tyler. Einhorn, Mrs. Maddux recalled, had a severe case of poison ivy and spent most of the time in bed but Holly's parents saw enough of him to take a dislike to "We didn't particularly care for him, but we were very careful to be very pleasant and smile," Mrs.

Maddux said. His ideas, she said, "were not ours." Holly also introduced him to her friend, Toni Flanagan, who still bristles at the memory of his overbearing treatment of Holly. "I immediately realized he was the dominant force of the personalities," Mrs. Flanagan said. Some friends who knew the couple in Philadelphia find that to be a perfect assessment.

"She was like Polly Purebred," one of them said last week, "and he was like a Shylock. He was very suppressive of her. He put her down all the time always telling her she was a skinny nothing and that she couldn't make it without him. But when she was not there, he was jealous and panicked." During the next few years, accord- ''years ago that can just never be re- Ira Einhorn says he was 'framed' placed," said Bill Ferrell, 35, a news- ing to her mother, she held several paper auverusiug CAetuuve wno 3 SHOP BAMBERGER'S CHERRY HILL. DEPTFORD.

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And Holly, as so many remember her, a radiant cheerleader, doing a split and clutching a pompon. Amid a sea of lacquered beehives, Holly wore her straight blond hair natu-t-. rally. 'iv Holly was "so pretty and self-pos-. sessed," said her close high school i friend Toni Flanagan, "that she was i held a little in awe." Mrs.

Flanagan, 31, now a deputy court clerk, kept in touch with Holly until her disappear- ance. "She was perfect in appearance. She never wore makeup. Her hair i was always in place. She could go to a pep rally and never have a smudge on her." Holly Maddux was also talented, i She couM dance, draw and write.

She i was smart. She was kind to old peo-i pie, visiting them to give them massages. She was popular. She was generous. She was loyal to her fami-? ly.

She did not smoke, drink or ap-1 prove of drugs. Yet, said her friends, she was tolerant of others who didn't I share her attitudes. "She was a very special person," said Larry Wells, 36, now an assistant attorney in Texas who dated Holly in high school and who also corresponded with her until her Originally $400 (A296-6036) Choose built-in cassette or 8-track recorder-player tape deck, both with separate recording meters, auto-stop, pause, fast forward, digital tape counter, plus damped eject on cassette AMFM-stereo receiver with precise flywheel tuning, loudness contour, tuning meter and AFC. Separate automatic full-size record changer Pair of Thruster passive radiator speakers in woodgram vinyl cabinets A i to 1 ff 1 disappearance. "She was unbelievably talented.

You just had the feeling there wasn't anything she couldn't do. I know you always say these things about dead people, but it was true." Holly was the oldest of five children; she was raised in a warm, but protective some friends felt too protective family. Fred Maddux, 56, a draftsman with the State Highway Department, is judged political ly conservative even by conservative East Texas standards. "She led a very sheltered life," said a noting that Holly had displayed a certain naivete, even in adulthood. "The vicious or rough side of life really horrified her." The Madduxes possessed inherited wealth that made it possible to open Holly's world beyond the boundaries 'of Tyler.

Holly missed cheerleading i camp because she was in Switzerland at the time, Mrs. Flanagan recalled. When Holly reached college age, she was anxious to leave Texas. "She wanted to see what the rest of the country was like," said her moth Elizabeth, 59, her face etched with grief and fatigue during an interview Friday. Holly chose Bryn Mawr over Mount Holyoke after visiting both.

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