Word: annes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their act, honed to within an inch of everybody's life, is among other things a pigeonholer's nightmare, swooping from low burlesque to high camp, from keen wit to Raggedy Ann clowning, from one-line gags to intricately orchestrated sketches. W.illiam Wordsworth's The Daffodils is revived, lyrics faithfully intact, as a rock-'n'-roll song, with Ullett wreaking vengeance on a mangy guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone...
...miles wide, and include 37 counties: 25 in Michigan, nine in Ohio and three in Canada. The area will have a population of 15 million centered in the Motor City but with secondary concentrations at Port Huron, 55 miles to the northeast, Toledo, Flint, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor...
...detail the order in which the property of a person who dies intestate is to be distributed among his surviving relatives, including spouses, children, grandchildren, parents, brothers and sisters, their children and the decedent's cousins-on past fourth cousins. Kruse had never married, and his spinster sister Ann had died years before. After long digging, the bankers finally traced his nearest kin: six cousins, whom Ottawa County Probate Judge Fred Miles duly named Kruse's heirs last June...
...Even after that decision, though, Judge Miles and the bankers were still curious. They found that year after year Kruse had carefully preserved all his old correspondence-and in letters dating back to the 1920s they discovered vague references to a mysterious "Eugenia," who turned out to be Sister Ann's illegitimate daughter. As Kruse's niece, Eugenia was clearly his primary heir. But was she alive? And if so, where? Further detective work in ancient adoption records located Eugenia. She was the adopted daughter of a couple who had never revealed her origin; her first name...
...estate to Eugenia-Rosemary, who had never heard of Uncle Arthur, though he obviously knew about her. Neither Eugenia's illegitimacy nor her adoption barred her $1,600,000 windfall. Those who knew Kruse suspect that he left no will because he recoiled from exposing Sister Ann's secret. If so, he gambled on the small-town probate court's ability to discover Eugenia. Fortunately for her, his gamble paid...