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...Edward Alexander, but he preferred others. Perhaps his favorite name for himself (adopted from the book of Revelation) was "The Beast whose number is 666." When he died, at 72, he was popularly known as "The Worst Man in Britain" and "The Wickedest Man in the World." His literary executor, John Symonds, has now written a sympathetic biography...
...Norman Douglas' perhaps most intimate friend, and the executor of his will, I must ask you to correct the misstatements made in your obituary of Feb. 18. Mr. Douglas did not die "in penury"; he was a man of independent means; nor did he die in a "borrowed villa."He honored me by living permanently in my house on Capri, where we had dwelt together since the war until his recent death...
...inherited Dr. Griffin's estate (estimated at $60,000 to $100,000) when he died in 1947. Dr. Gibson went on living in what was now 'Lizzie Ayres's house. Within two months, the 71-year-old spinster made him her sole heir, named him co-executor of her estate-and thus set the scene for one of the oddest courtroom cases in Connecticut history...
...spinster's heir, one of his patients died, and the doctor gave the widow, Ann Wetmore, a job as his receptionist. Lizzie Ayres was a bit jealous of Ann, but her fondness for Dr. Gibson did not cool: in 1949 she changed her will, making him the sole executor. In the spring of 1950 Gibson got a divorce, helped by Lizzie's testimony that his wife, from whom he was separated, had deserted him. That month, according to later testimony, he asked an official at Yale medical school how to go about donating a body for dissection...
...executor of Kelly's will, ex-Sheriff Michael Mulcahy, and Kelly's tax adviser, a onetime city politico named Ed Gorman, pooh-poohed the widow's story. They had gone through the safe and the files in Ed's office only four days after his death, they said, and had found no big bundles of cash...