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Things went fairly smoothly after Mattie Moye Hagerty died. The Greenville, N.C., widow left her estate and possessions to be divided equally among her three sons. Two sons, twins Roy and Guy, traveled to the family home to start to divide the family heirlooms. Their brother Harry was in touch by phone before making the trip south from Washington. The brothers asked Harry what he wanted from the house. He named a few things. Then his wife Helen remembered the footstool, the homely one with fringe running along the bottom...
...Hagerty brothers used an informal bid system to divide their mother's possessions. Roy Hagerty, who was executor of the estate, assigned different colored stickers to each brother. "First we went through the house, putting stickers on what we wanted. Anything with two or more stickers on it was bid on, with the winner's price deducted from his portion of the small amount of money we each got from the estate," he says. Although brother Harry didn't score the fringed footstool for his wife and kids, he did go home with his father's old leather chair, some...
Yale topped the board in the one-meter diving event as sophomore Josh Gallant brought in 32 points with a score of 316.30. Princeton freshman Kent DeMond’s 311.80 earned second while Harvard sophomore Enrique Roy placed third with 302.80. Roy did not compete in this meet last year due to a skull fracture he incurred during warm...
Faurer also knew by then that his name was making its way back into the light. In the 1990s art historians had begun to talk about a mid-20th century "New York School" of loosely affiliated street photographers that included Frank, William Klein, Roy de Carava and Diane Arbus. What we see now is that Faurer was a crucial figure in that circle. Was he a second-tier artist? Absolutely. His output was modest. He lacked Arbus' sure instinct for the uncanny and Frank's psychological scope. But what Faurer saw from that lower perch were some things...
...unreleased songs. There's also the obligatory coffee-table book and guide to the King's queens and consorts. Kids born in the post-Elvis years will get a chance to become fans too. An animated Disney movie about a tiny Elvis fan hits theaters June 21. --By Roy B. White...