Word: executor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company did not have to testify, as the judge ruled the University did not have to release the papers until the date Lowell's will executor set when he gave the papers to Harvard...
...surprises began a month after H.L. Hunt's death at age 85. When his will was opened, Ray turned out to be executor with full administrative powers over the estate-possibly because H.L. had doted on Ray as the only son of his second marriage. Discord soon developed between Ray and his three older halfbrothers, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar.* If not eccentrics in H.L.'s mold, they are at least wheeler-dealers. Bunker, in particular, has grabbed headlines with gaudy speculations in silver and soybeans. To resolve the conflict, Ray agreed in mid-1975 to split the empire...
...concentrated. But three weeks after his death, a so-called Mormon will mysteriously turned up at a church office building in Salt Lake City, making bequests to the Mormons, various worthy institutions and a gas-station attendant, Melvin Dummar. It also named Hughes' estranged aide Noah Dietrich as executor. Trial on the authenticity of the will is scheduled to begin Aug. 15 in Las Vegas, and Dietrich has retained lawyers in Los Angeles and Houston to handle the case...
...alarmed at the intrusion. Last October, before the Sinatra group was rebuffed in its attempts to gain representation on the board, Greenspun filed a suit charging mismanagement and misappropriation of funds against the present corporate management. His special target: Chairman and President Robert H. Johnson. Johnson is also the executor of Del Webb's estate, which owns about a third of the stock, and the principal director of the Del Webb Foundation. "What is good for the estate is not necessarily good for the public company," argues the pugnacious Greenspun. "What is good for the foundation is not necessarily...
Another peculiarity of the Mormon will is that it names as executor Noah Dietrich, Hughes' onetime chief lieutenant. Hughes had a severe falling-out with Dietrich in 1957, and the two men never patched up their relationship. Even so, Beverly Hills Attorney Harold Rhoden, who represents Dietrich on the case, has submitted the will to eight noted handwriting experts who have declared that the handwriting is Hughes...