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...When Harry Chapin Smith, 84, died last fall and was buried in Potter's Field, most of his Brooklyn neighbors assumed that he had been what he appeared to be: a toothless, poverty-stricken derelict, who lived in a one-room hovel and sold odds & ends of junk picked up on nighttime scavenging rounds. Last week the true identity of Harry Smith came to light. The old derelict was a wealthy Harvard man, long respected by his brokers for his canny investments. Total of his estate's assets: about $400,000 in cash, bonds and blue-chip stocks...
...playing criticism, from the stands, of non-playing Captain Shields, who complained of the non-giving of a footfault against Seixas . . . To make sure that the point was rammed home, Savitt could have made a special statement to the press that he had been "fairly and squarely beaten." STEPHEN POTTER London, England...
...Author Potter, discoverer of Gamesmanship, * TIME'S thanks for his authoritative analysis of Davis Cup-manship...
Smith, who died October 24 and was buried November 5 in Potter's Field, lived in squalor for nearly 30 years in a three-story frame house near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. When the house was opened Tuesday police found tons of junk and newspapers which he collected in his nightly rummaging through garbage cans...
JULY-Double Standard. At Fort Devens, Mass., Donald Potter began Army paratrooper training after the Navy rejected him because he would neither remove his nude tattoo nor drape...