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Sole heirs to Hetty's residuary estate (grown to nearly $100,000,000 before it was divided 50-50 in 1926) were Son Ned and Daughter Hetty (Mrs. Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks). She kept Ned from marrying while she was alive and approved only of Daughter Hetty's marriage at 38 to John Jacob Astor's 63-year-old great-grandson, Matthew Astor Wilks...
While Kuo Kuo gets more mysterious and unmanageable with her secret plans, Juan solaces himself with Harriet, a travel-book writer. That affair lasts until Harriet's professional duties call her away to the pirates of Bias Bay. Then Juan falls into Kuo Kuo's clutches again, and almost before he knows it he finds himself in a tin-armored tank advancing against the Japanese intrenchments, under heavy but inaccurate fire. How Author Linklater extricates his hero from that parlous position is a caution...
BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON - Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Peter and Harriet (Gaudy Night, TIME, Feb. 24, 1936) spend their honeymoon in an ancient English farmhouse and discover smoking fireplaces, eccentric neighbors, cold-blooded murder and-a greater understanding...
...collection are Miss Lowell's notebooks, manuscripts, rare examples of her early work, and her vast correspondence with literary figures in America and England, including Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Richard Aldington, Vachel Lindsay, Barrett Wendell, Harriet Monroe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eleanora Duse, John Drinkwater, Conrad Alken, and Ezra Pound...
...business woman was Ethel V. Mars, president of Mars, Inc. (Milky Way chocolate bars). More famed for her racing stable than her corporate connection, which she inherited (TIME, Jan. 4), Mrs. Mars was paid $120,000. Not far below Mrs. Mars came Mrs. Lillian S. Dodge, cosmetician president of Harriet Hubbard Aver, Inc. ($100,000). At that rate it took Mrs. Dodge more than two years to earn the $213,286 fine she had to pay in 1930 for trying to smuggle in trunkloads of French furs, silks, satins and jewelry...