Word: executors
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DIED. Alexandra Tolstoy, 95, last surviving daughter of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. The eleventh of Tolstoy's twelve children and a favorite of his, "Sasha" became her father's secretary at 17 and executor of his will in 1910. She never married because, she said, "I didn't want to exchange my father for someone else." After working as a nurse on the front lines of World War I, she became active in anti-Bolshevik intellectual circles, and was arrested five times and jailed for a year. In 1931 she immigrated...
...moving figure, a 20th century Newton who set physics aflame and left an intellectual legacy so rich and profound that its depth is still a source of amazement and discovery. Yet Einstein, for his part, never lost sight of the humanity that new knowledge should serve. Says Einstein's executor, Economist Otto Nathan: "Even if he had never done science at all, he would have been one of the memorable figures of the century." That may be the exaggeration of a loyal friend. But as a centennial assessment, it is, relatively speaking, not entirely off the mark...
Though the will contained misspellings and references atypical of the reclusive billionaire, onetime Hughes lieutenant Noah Dietrich, who was designated the estate's executor by the Mormon will, pressed the case. He engaged Los Angeles Attorney Harold Rhoden, who lined up several handwriting experts. All testified that the will was written by Hughes...
...Greeves letters are being edited by Walter Hooper, a U.S. Episcopal priest who lives in Oxford as literary executor of the Lewis estate. Hooper has an explanation for Lewis' growing popularity. He thinks the West is moving away from materialism and liberalism and needs "a coherent, universal faith, something permanent in a world of seeming chaos." No one better fits that need than C.S. Lewis, who once said, "All that is not eternal is eternally out of date...
...Utah gas-station operator, Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have picked up Hughes in the desert and driven him back to Las Vegas-and Dummar has since admitted that his story was false. Even so, Hughes' old estranged lieutenant, Noah Dietrich, who is named in the will as executor, and Dietrich's Los Angeles attorney, Harold Rhoden, contend that the will is authentic. Next week a jury trial is scheduled to open in Las Vegas to decide on the validity of the Mormon will. If the will is declared to be a legal and binding document, Hughes...