Word: childlessness
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...Sever, who died a childless widower in 1941, directed in his will that $1,622,-482 of his fortune be used to establish a "technological school" in his native Missouri. As soon as the will was published, six Missouri colleges put in a claim. The Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to interpret the will. On the premise that Mr. Sever's intention was to set up a new school and not to expand one already existing...
Divorced. By Susanna Wilson Hare, 28, chic daughter of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wil son), David Meredith Hare, 28, color photographer and surrealist sculptor; after seven years of childless marriage ; in Reno...
Hope Chest. In Dallas, Tex., a childless housewife in her middle twenties grew alarmed by the diaper shortage, laid in a supply, just in case...
Divorced. By Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, 62, tall, tweedy British Ambassador to Russia and recent Yalta conferee: Lady Kerr (Maria Teresa Diaz Salas), 38, comely Chilean socialite, now a resident of Manhattan; after 16 years of childless marriage; in Edinburgh, Scotland. The grounds: desertion (since...
Divorced. Carl Van Doren, 59, crop-haired Manhattan literary critic (Mutiny in January, Benjamin Franklin); by his second wife, Jean Wright Gorman Van Doren, 44; after six years of childless marriage; in Reno...