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After eccentric, peg-legged Colonel Edward H. R. ("Ned") Green, son of fabulous old Miser Hetty Green, died at 67 in Lake Placid, N. Y. two Junes ago, the U. S. Government collected taxes of $17,520,987 on his $36,137,335 net estate. Four States-as well as his wife and sister-also commenced a fearsome tangle of litigation for their shares (TIME, April...
First job was to determine which State was "Ned" Green's legal domicile-New York, where he maintained a $27,000-a-year apartment at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel; Florida, where his Star Island mansion at Miami Beach cost a small fortune; Massachusetts, where in 1921 he built a house requiring 30 servants; or Texas, where he spent most of his time between 1893 and 1910 but kept only a $5-a-month room at Terrell in later years...
...Supreme Court will accept briefs from the three disappointed States if they protest Master Flannery's findings. Should their claims be allowed as well as Massachusetts', Ned Green's estate will fall $1,589,000 short of paying them...
...most responsible for putting new blood into the National is its stocky, high-strung manager Edward ("Ned") King, Manhattan socialite who once worked as cartoonist for Rider and Driver and the World-Telegram, started managing the Horse Show five years ago. His conversation is as horsy as the show he runs. Instead of saying: "Please say that over again," Ned King invariably says: "Please come back to the post." Of horse shows and horsemen he philosophizes: "Most people are like horses. Some are stayers, others sprint and too many are incorrigible. We ought to have a saliva test...
Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean Jr., 19, second son of bizarre Washington Socialite Evalyn L. Walsh McLean; and Ann Carroll Meem, 19, daughter of Washington Banker Henry Grant Meem; in Washington. Best man was Brother John R. McLean II, who married Agnes Pyne Bacon in Reno last April...