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ftn -if i THE BOSTON SUNDAY GtOBSOVMBB Burton 'Industrious Capable Devoted9, New York Friends Stunned By Joan's Disappearance onrad handler politics were never discussed, although Mrs. Van Vleck did remember that Martin Risen attended St Charles Roman Catholic Church around the corner. The Rischs were very friendly with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anderson with whom they shared the top floor but who have since moved to Bogta, Colombia.

Martin, like his young wife, seemed most interested in getting himself established. Unlike her, however, he would convey the impression of coldness to those who didn't know him. "He would pass me on the stairs and simply say 'hello and not stop to chat as some of my other tenants," said his former landlady. "But that was simply Marty's way of staying to himself." ords in their two-room apartment Joan's relations with her family in New Rochelle were described as devoted and she is said to have spoken often of her younger sister who was then about 9 years old. She was very interested in watching her grow up.

Punctual, Never Sick A person with a "great sense of proportion" Joan was also very punctual and never sick, her employer said. "Anyone who is able to climb three nights of stairs every day when she is pregnant must be made of strong stuff," said her first landlady. In all the time from January, 1956 to September, 1958 while she and her husband were her tenants. Mrs. Van Vleck said Mrs.

Risch was ill only for 1 fl? I I WIMPS'! a -A 1 MRS. JOAN RISCH Her Friends Disliked Thii Picture Graduate School. Marty would drop in the office occasionally Just about about four days and that was immediately after the baby's birth. "My husband had told Joan sold out and take Joan to dinner. "He was an exceptional young man, said one of her former business associates.

'sir' 4 i 4r if F4'- A I ft I FAVORITE PICTURE of her friends. Mrs. Risch with children, Douglas, 2, and Lillian, 4. that since Marty was at times away from home on business trips while she was expecting, that she was to call on us at Both of were very bright They were the type of JL brown hair very simply and any time if she needed help." had originally been an attic but with its brick walls it presented a modern air. a couple that makes one feel that complaints about the In the few weeks before the FOR XMAS naturally, fane had a very pretty face the kind you remember with loads of personality." stuff the younger generation is The furnishings were simple By PATRICIA WALSH (Glob Stiff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Nov.

4-A reputation of the highest caliber has followed Mrs. Joan Risch across three states, leaving those who knew her in the past six years stunned and apprehensive about her sudden disappearance from her Lincoln, Mass, home. Industrious, very bright and tactful manager of people," is the praise extended by a man who was her business superior for five years. "I can't say enough for her. She and Marty were a couple of kids you would be proud to have as a part of your own family, said Mrs.

John P. Van Vleck, wife of the superintendent of the Brooklyn Heights apartment house where the Rischs lived as Bewlyweds. "They were our first tenants, so we have strong sentiments about them. Maybe this was the reason we grew so attached to them, but I also feel that it must have been they themselves." Airs. Van Vleck said she can still remember the day when Martin Risch and his fiancee, Joan Nattrass, came.

to look at the fourth-floor apartment. "We had just renovated the rooms and had put an ad in the Sunday New York Times. That Saturday night my husband and I were tacking down the last flight of stair carpeting when Marty and Joan peeked through the front vestibule window and inquired about the apartment. "We liked them immediately and they liked the apartment." That was early in December 1955. On Dec.

26 of that year Joan and Marty were married in Huntington, L.I. They moved into their new home early in January, 1956 and began their life as "devoted, down-to-earth and very quiet" New Yorkers. Martin was employed at Regal Paper Co. in New York and Joan continued in her position as secretary to the director of the college book division of Thomas Y. Crowell the New York publishing firm where she had worked ince the Summer of 1956.

Prior to this she had been employed at Harcourt Brace and World, since her graduation from Wilson College in 1952. made of are not completely baby was born the Van Vlecks allowed Joan to use their own1 private back yard and lawn furniture to relax. and well kept The large brick wall in the living room was The now-familiar studio pic true. "I can't think of anyone with ture oi ner is said to be an A fete coict data and banquet roomt art ttill atailabUfor your Christma Party. Belter arrangt for it note! RESERVE YOUR PARTY DATE I You tan folio later qttk tht ddailt.

Call KlrUand f-WOO, inaccurate likeness. less idiosyncrasies than Joan." A responsible, capable work er and office organizer, Joan partly covered by shelves of books. Beside them on a stand was Mrs. Risch's aquarium of tropical fish. But the people, not the apartment, were close to the hearts of the Brooklyn couple.

it maices ner iook iiKe a siren," said her former employer. Getting Established soon advanced from her origi THE nal position as secretary lor a number of salesmen to secre tary to the senior officer of "Right after the baby was born Marty came down one day and handed the child to me in a small dresser drawer." The young couple was saving their money and didn't want to purchase any extra furniture. "I was delighted to care for the baby," the landlady said. Rearranged Attic There was nothing very elaborate about Joan Risch's the Crowell company's collece A FIELDS HOTEL The conversation between the missing woman and her landlady was confined for the most part to brief references to her work. Religion and department clothes, her friend recalls.

She left Crowell in 1957 when she was expecting her "She dressed like the typical business girl in a sweater or blouse and skirt," said Mrs. Van Vleck. "She was never nrst child, Lillian, now four years old. During her five years of heavily made up and wore hei The Risch's small apartment (fonrad This Week Open Monday, Wednesday and employment, Joan followed closely on the personality pattern which has impressed her other acquaintances. Friday nights (fonrad handler An English major In college, she apparently did not tend toward writing herself although she was always surrounded by books.

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