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...award of $112,291 is "a mere token," reflected Judge Fred A. Young in Manhattan last week, "for all the wealth of the State of New York could not compensate the claimant for the mental anguish suffered through nearly twelve years of false imprisonment, under the impression that he would be there for the rest of his life...
...time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo and insult across the courtroom while character witnesses culled from the bluebooks of two continents spoke up for one claimant or the other. Gloria herself sat through the trial sipping endless glasses of water and watching in bewilderment the storm that blew about her head. "All during that trial," she said later, "I kept saying to myself that when I grow up, I'll marry and have a lot of children...
While the necessary steps are taken to make sure that there are no kin or other legally qualified claimants for the body, it is embalmed. Many schools (or "body banks" representing all the schools in a metropolitan area) keep the bodies in cold storage for one to twelve months, to make sure that no belated claimant appears. In the anatomy class, the most practical number of students for each body is now put at four; one or two students usually work on one part while the others watch. The rest of the body is draped, and it is always treated...
Richard Savage, the poet, is almost a nonentity. But Savage as the friend of Pope and Samuel Johnson becomes a highly important figure in early eighteenth century English literature. And as the claimant to the title of "bastard son of the late Earl Rivers" he has created an aura of wonder which approaches an unfinished fairy tale...
...Albany, N. Y., the State Division of Employment received a terse memo from a New York unemployment insurance office in regard to a claimant: "Change of name: old name: 'X.' New name: 'John Smith.' Reason: he learned to write...