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Last week his peaceful world blew up with a gaudy and scandalous bang. A deposition filed before a New York surrogate by a Manhattan attorney named Raymond T. Armbruster told a startling story. Armbruster's story: two months before her death last summer, a rich, British-born, Park Avenue socialite named Mrs. Mabel Seymour Greer told him of a girlhood indiscretion. She had borne a child out of wedlock in Boston more than half a century before. The father: Dr. Willard B. Segur. In Armbruster's opinion her child and only heir was the doctor's adopted...
Died. Ernest Thompson Seton, 86, British-born, Canada-reared naturalist-artist-author (Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, etc.), father of Authoress Anya Seton (Dragon-wyck); in Seton Village, N. Mex. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Thomas ("Tom") Pettitt, 86, British-born, mustachioed grand old man of court tennis; in Newport, R. I. A onetime locker-boy for the first U.S. court-tennis court (in Boston), he taught himself the ancient, highly specialized game (played in large, complicated, enclosed courts, with pear-shaped racquets and complex rules), revolutionized classic court style with his smashing drives ("When I get a fair sight of the ball, I hit it, and I hit it damned hard"). Tom Pettitt made both court-tennis history and legend, in his heyday was reputed to have defeated many an opponent while using...
Died. Bertram M. Campbell, 60, British-born Wall Street customer's man who in 1938 was falsely convicted of forgery and sent to Sing Sing, was cleared of all charges (when a dope-peddling professional forger finally confessed) after 40 months of unjust imprisonment; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Freeport...
...Blonde, British-born Iris Carpenter, thirtyish, BBC commentator and war correspondent (London Daily Herald, Boston Globe), says that she held firm, too. Although ready to grant from the start that it was no woman's world, she thought a "newspaper girl" had as much right to report what was happening as anyone else. Correspondent Carpenter stayed until V-E day and beyond, ended up with a new feeling of authority on military strategy, a shattered eardrum (enemy bombing) and a fiancé: Colonel Russell F. Akers Jr. of the U.S. First Army staff...