Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ann Hopkins: Moors; Radcliffe News; Student Government committee...
Died. Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, 80, possibly the world's richest woman (worth $100 to $125 million), daughter of Hetty Green, "The Witch of Wall Street" (1835-1916); in Manhattan. As a girl, she often lived in shabby flats, cooked and sewed to save pennies for her millionaire mother. She grew up an ungainly recluse, usually dressed in black, at 38 married 57-year-old Matthew Astor Wilks, great-grandson of Millionaire John Jacob Astor I. Wilks left her a mere million to add to nearly $50 million from her mother, $43 million from her brother...
Other sporty features of the weekend included a figure-skating exhibition by, Barbara Ann Scott, the crowning of a lovely young thing from Smith as Snow Queen, and a ski jump meet Saturday afternoon at a nearby golf course. Dartmouth's Don Trembley won that event and also turned in the longest jump, 141 feet. Not many of the large crowd which was there at the beginning stayed for the finish of the jump. The event was tedious under any conditions, and on Saturday only a battle-hardened North Korean could have stood the bitter cold for very long...
JOHN NEUFELD Ann Arbor, Mich...
Most phenomenal is the special popularity of Ann Blyth, 22, who draws half her mail from Korea. Ann's fans want to see her photographed just from the neck up. Sample: "Please send us a head picture with that certain dreaminess in your eyes, just a sweet, simple picture...