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Died. Sir William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 72, nineteenth Baron Sempill and Baronet of Nova Scotia, a Royal Air Force officer and Air Ministry adviser until his retirement in 1941; of a stroke; in Edinburgh, Scotland. His death poses unprecedented problems of succession, since the claimant to the baronetcy is Younger Brother Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, 53, born and raised as a female until 1952, when she legally changed name (from Elizabeth) and sex following hormone treatments...
...CASTING DEPARTMENT was run by "a lawyer who, like the Colonel, had been in drama at college." Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant." The main problem, the Colonel explained, was keeping jurors from discovering "true character" in the courtroom corridors "when the actor gets off the witness stand...
Delay before the Jury. What the average auto accident claimant wants to recover, according to a recent New York study, is the actual cost of his medical and car-repair bills plus "a little gravy" to pay him for his trouble and pain. What he gets, according to the same study, is an average $850. After paying his lawyer, he has about $500 left...
...versifier (and editor of an early rhyming dictionary) greeted Frost as a professional colleague and earned his ire. "Would he claim equality with me?" fumed Frost to Untermeyer, "more claimant than clement." With T. S. Eliot, Frost could not resist a further pun. "We both like to play," he wrote, "but I like to play euchre. He likes to play Eucharist...
Unfortunately for the Observer, there do not seem to be many such readers around. Approaching its first birthday, U.S. journalism's first serious claimant to the title of national newspaper is losing ground. From a starting 422,000, weekly circulation is down to 200,000. Newsstand sales approach the vanishing point...