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HEYDAY OF A WIZARD -Jean Burton-Knopf...
...Jean Burton, who has made eccentrics her specialty (Elisabet Ney, TIME, April 5, 1943; Sir Richard Burton's Wife, TIME, June 23, 1941), has written a lucid, witty biography of the most successful, most enigmatic of these 19th-Century mediums. Daniel Dunglass Home was born in a small Highland village. His father was the illegitimate son of the tenth Earl of Home. His mother specialized in prognosticating the deaths of her best friends. In 1840 the Home family emigrated to the U.S., leaving Daniel in the care of his aunt, Mary Cook. When he was nine, Daniel...
...conviction was also a legal milestone in the life of Wayne William Lonergan, the convict's 22-month-old son -- heir by his mother's will to her personal fortune of some $230,000 and her share in a $7,000,000 trust fund. Already Mrs. Lucile Burton, his chic grandmother, was preparing a petition for her appointment as his guardian...
There was already testimony about his perversion: Assistant District Attorney Jacob Grumet testified that Lonergan confessed (this unsigned confession is now repudiated by the defendant and his lawyers) to homosexual relations, both before and after his marriage. One of the men involved is said to have been William Burton, Lonergan's wife's father. (Broderick has referred to a boy corespondent in Mrs. Burton's 1926 divorce action.) Grumet also quoted Lonergan as saying that he derived "a certain amount" of satisfaction from his married life but that his separation from his wife was the result...
...apartment to leave a toy elephant for his son. He was unstable, seldom held a job for long. One of his few recorded jobs was chair pushing at the New York World's Fair. Example of his psychopathic unscrupulousness: his marriage to Heiress (about $6,000,000) Patricia Burton, especially if the rumor about Lonergan and Burton is true. Lonergan eloped with his wife against her mother's wishes...