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Word: gizyclca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protested: the will of Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, late publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; by her only daughter, Countess Felicia Gizyclca (exwife of ex-Patterson Columnist Drew Pearson). Felicia, who ran away from home at 18, had been left most of Cissie's personal effects, some real estate, and an income of $25,000 a year for life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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