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Samuel Untermyer, millionaire lawyer, politico, orchid fancier, who died in 1940, was revealed in an executor's account to have set up a $30,000-a-year trust fund for his "very dear friend," Mrs. Marguerite Herczeg, widow of a Hungarian nobleman. Mrs. Herczeg was "astonished to learn the secret...
...Injured. Modern readers know Griswold because of someone else. A penniless, difficult poet dogged him all his life. This poet was drunk, tormented, wild. Griswold replaced him as Graham's editor. Griswold quarreled with him, patronized him, lent him money, and after his death became his literary executor. He did one of the poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will sink into...
...Executor of this break-through and temporary commander of the U.S. II Corps (as Lieut. General George Patton had been at Gafsa and El Guettar, where it had been expected that tanks would be supreme) was Major General Omar N. Bradley, a top-notch infantry soldier. Tall, wiry and grey, General Bradley is as tough as his hardest topkick. He was an outstanding athlete at West Point. When a new 550-yard obstacle course was opened under his supervision at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, he personally tested its 14 hazards at top speed...
...also announced yesterday that President Lowell left his portrait, painted by Charles Hopkinson, to the University. The picture, which hangs in the Lowell House library, will hangs beside a similar portrait of Mrs. Lowell which was recently given to the University by the executor of the Lowell estate...
...Alaska. New due dates, pursuant to postponements, are fixed as the 15th day of the third month following the month in which the first of these three events occurs: (1) return of the taxpayer to the continental United States; (2) termination of the war; (3) appointment of an administrator, executor, or conservator for the taxpayer's estate...