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...dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown and of local society, then a reception for the rest of town and gown deemed eligible to meet a genuine prince. Nothing was overlooked except that the committee neglected to ascertain that the Prince's hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned the welcoming brass-hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten man ensued. He was eventually found...
...They assumed that he pushed his wife out the window. They questioned my aunt and tried to make her admit she had heard Bridges and his wife quarreling. They went upstairs into my aunt's kitchen and measured the distance between the windows of the two flats to ascertain if she could have heard any words, had there been...
...Warner had broken into her apartment, beaten her. Mr. Warner's reply: The police had gone to rescue his son who was being held captive by Mrs. Antibus and a Mrs. Jean MacDonald. Thomas W. Warner Jr.'s explanation: He had hired Mrs. Antibus to ascertain whether or not Mrs. MacDonald's romantic interest in him was sincere or mercenary. Assured, by a dictaphone which Mrs. Antibus had placed in Mrs. MacDonald's room, that Mrs. MacDonald was sincere, he had called on Mrs. Antibus at her apartment where Mrs. MacDonald had joined them and where...
Back to Manhattan last week went the traveling troupe of lawyers and court attaches whose task the past six weeks has been to ascertain facts about the domicile of the late Edward Howland Robinson Green in order to make possible the disposition of his estate, estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000 (TIME, April 19). Before tackling the 900-page transcript of Texas and Florida testimony, Surrogate Harry E. Owen of Essex County. N. Y. called for a resumption of probate hearings. More convenient for all concerned with these memorable hearings than Surrogate Owen's little office...
Texan to Texans. In Dallas fortnight ago at a hearing to ascertain facts about the Colonel's domicile many a loyal old Texan went before Surrogate Owen's Commissioner, Raymond C. Prime, to vouch for Hetty Green's London-born son as a Texan. Among them was a tall, lanky Negro named William Madison ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald, 70 and rich. He was Colonel Green's political lieutenant between 1897 and 1909 at a salary of $575 per month. Recalled...