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...Hebrew University. That idea fell through when the Israeli government decided that a museum was no place for the remains of a donor. Next, Billy's sisters, Fiftyish Polly Rose Gottlieb, and Sixtyish Miriam Stern, scouted Westchester Hills Cemetery in Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth Man), the sisters chose the cemetery's biggest plot, which cost some $48,000 and lay opposite the grave cf Composer George Gershwin. They also planned a monument designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
...gastronomic tour," began an acid article in Paris' Le Figaro Litteraire last week, "it is difficult to believe that he occupies the White House under the pseudonym of L. B. Johnson." But Barry might just as well be there, the weekly magazine complained: L.B.J. is the faithful executor of Goldwater's plans. The Times of London chimed in: "The U.S. is doing its best to appear as if it has reverted to the American colonialism of the 19th century...
...doctors and masterminded the Columbia's victory in the America's Cup competition trials. In 1962 he again overruled medical protests to help out in Columbia's unsuccessful bid to be the U.S.'s Cup defender. But now it is over. Last week, acting as executor for the estate of his brother Paul, who had owned Columbia, Corny announced the sale of the twelve-meter yacht to a California syndicate. The group plans to be the first from the West Coast to enter the Cup trials, will go up against two-year-old Nefertiti...
...rumors began last month when Sarit's eldest son, army Major Setha Thanarat, demanded that the courts appoint him executor of his father's estate. Setha charged that his stepmother, thirtyish, comely Thanpuying Vichitra Thanarat, had deliberately underestimated Sarit's assets at $650,000, and had hidden away for her own use millions of dollars in cash, jewelry and land deeds. The press, which Sarit had kept in tight check throughout his reign, gleefully dug through the records and discovered that Sarit had owned or held an interest in a trust company, a brewery, 51 automobiles...
After his death, in 1945, the Scherzo was found among his papers by his son Bela in Budapest. Today, like all of Bartok's music, it is embroiled in a discordant legal hassle between his heirs and the Manhattan lawyer who is executor of the estate and who has given Pianist Kentner exclusive performance rights to the Scherzo for the next two years...