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...will probated in Los Angeles, the late electronics trailblazer, Dr. Lee de Forest, bequeathed $1 apiece to his three daughters, and very little more for his only other heir, fourth (and last) wife Marie Mosquini. The "Father of Radio" -whose 1906 invention of the audion tube had also made possible long-distance telephony, talking movies and television -had burned out his fourth fortune and wound up with...
Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...
...While United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther led the planning for the auto wage negotiations, the man who did the union's talking in last week's parleys with General Motors was his heir apparent and chief bargaining strategist at G.M., Leonard Woodcock, 50. A quiet, reflective negotiator, Len Woodcock, though born in Rhode Island, was educated at the British public school of Chipsey ("A poor cousin to Eton," says he), still speaks with a slight English accent, lives in Detroit's fancy suburban Grosse Pointe. Woodcock's demands for 1961: a 26?hourly wage...
Bathtubs and Singing Dogs. Last week a reader of the Post could have learned that "Sears, Roebuck Heir Bob Rose will shoot only the greater kudu, sable antelope and mayala" in Mozambique (Doris Lilly), that "climbing, running and jumping in improper or outgrown shoes can do serious damage" (Josephine Lowman's "Why Grow Old?"), that ex-Blonde English Actress Barbara Steel's dark hair is nearer to her true hair color (Sidney Skolsky), or even, in the lead of Eleanor Roosevelt's column, that "We have just celebrated the Fourth of July." The Journal-American was busy...
Died. Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, the 4th Baron Westbury, 46. unemployed ex-soldier heir of the legendary "Curse of the Pharaohs," which purportedly killed three kinsmen and numerous members of the 1922 archaeological team that excavated the more than 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen; of a heart attack; in Geneva. Secretary to the Egyptian expedition that uncovered the hieroglyphic anathema-"Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of the Pharaoh"-Lord Westbury 's father died six years after the discovery (also at 46), while his grandfather (who kept...