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Cissy Patterson spends most of her party hours at "Dower House," her estate in Maryland, once owned by Lord Baltimore. She is driven to work every morning at eleven in one of her 16-cylinder Cadillacs. Sometimes she appears in riding-habit, accompanied by her French poodles, who have the run of the office and are dutifully patted by reporters. She lunches, though rarely at this season, at her town house. No. 15 DuPont Circle, formerly Daisy Harriman's, where the Calvin Coolidges stayed after their White House fire. Glowing, brocaded pajamas are her favorite party garb. Her voice...
...Pepper of Pennsylvania, objected to the probate on general grounds that the 1908 document was not a last will & testament. Sister Hetty's counsel moved to dismiss the objections, alleging Mrs. Green was no interested party in the probate because of a prenuptial agreement in which she waived dower rights for $1,500 per month for life...
...into such an agreement and there must be the fullest disclosure by the pact's proponent of its nature and legal effect. Widow Green told Surrogate Owen at an initial probate hearing last autumn that she did not know what she was doing when she signed away her dower rights, thinking the $18,000-per-annum allowance was just to be pin money...
...heard that one of their sex had been elected to be Congregationalist Babson's opposite number in South Africa. Though no minister, Emilie Solomon of Capetown was made the first woman chairman of the Congregational Union of South Africa. Two female ministers, Rev. Euphemia Mclntosh and Rev. Lilian Dower, assisted at the induction ceremonies and robed Chairman Solomon in a gown contributed by the Women's Federation of the Church. Miss Solomon signed her name in a Bible in which were the signatures of all her predecessors including her father, who held the post once. Her duties will...
Married. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning, 24, relict of Manhattan Realtor Edward W. Browning; and Bernard J. Hynes, 36, Denver theatre manager; in East Chester, N. Y. Fortnight ago she won dower rights of $5,000 a year from the estate of her late husband, in whose will she was not mentioned...