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Primary Heir. Even after that decision, though, Judge Miles and the bankers were still curious. They found that year after year Kruse had carefully preserved all his old correspondence-and in letters dating back to the 1920s they discovered vague references to a mysterious "Eugenia," who turned out to be Sister Ann's illegitimate daughter. As Kruse's niece, Eugenia was clearly his primary heir. But was she alive? And if so, where? Further detective work in ancient adoption records located Eugenia. She was the adopted daughter of a couple who had never revealed her origin; her first...
Died. Arthur William Brown, 85, foremost U.S. magazine illustrator in the 1920s and '30s, who once said of his craft, "We are the ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Clark's case, said Kenison, "our rule is preferable to that of Vermont. The automobile guest statutes were enacted in about half the states, in the 1920s and early 1930s, as a result of vigorous pressures by skillful proponents," meaning insurance companies...
...former Prime Minister has written his autobiography, not his memoirs, and this first volume ends as warbling air-raid sirens signal the start of World War II. Historians will find it a must; other readers will be intrigued by the glimpses into the tweed and broadcloth society of the 1920s...
...kind or another; there are some 40,000 professionally recognized psychiatrists and psychologists. Serious, important work is done by these practitioners-at least, by most of them-but their work is surrounded by a penumbra of popularization. Ever since the U.S. adopted Freud as a major prophet in the 1920s and '30s, more and more Americans have turned into do-it-yourself psychologists...