Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall appreciate a correction of your statement in TIME, July 28. ... "When in 1935 oil-heir William Hale Harkness Jr. died of cancer in Shanghai...
...Heir for Heritage. There were the usual disasters in the air. Ducks, gulls, buzzards, and even whistling swans, reported the Wall Street Journal, were colliding with man-made airplanes at the rate of nine a week. Other birds, after being electrocuted and tied in sacks, were being hurled at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. at the windshields of stationary airplanes by scientists of the Civilian Aeronautics Administration...
Died. Ruth Harkness, 46, first person to capture a live giant panda; of acute alcoholism; in a Pittsburgh hotel bathtub. When in 1935 oil-heir husband William Hale Harkness Jr. died of cancer in Shanghai, spunky Manhattan Dress Designer Ruth promptly sailed off to continue his interrupted giant panda hunt, found a one-pound baby panda nestled in a Tibetan tree trunk, brought it back to Chicago's Brookfield...
Hidden Papers. When he died in 1795, Boswell left over a million words of manuscript in a huge iron chest at Auchinleck Castle, the family seat in Scotland. His respectable heirs decided that Boswell had embarrassed the family enough during his lifetime, and kept his papers hidden. Eventually the papers moved, with Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, Lord Talbot de Malahide, to Malahide Castle in Ireland. Famed U.S. collector Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach cabled Lord Talbot an offer of $250,000 for the Malahide Papers. Said Lord Talbot: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond...
...husband, King Philip of Spain, was styled both King Consort and King of England. He left Mary after a year and after her death sent the Armada to make war on her half-sister Elizabeth. The second Mary's husband, Prince William of Orange, was an heir to the British throne in his own right and ruled equally with his wife. Prince George of Denmark, who married Queen Anne, had no British status, except as the Queen's husband. Victoria's Albert was the first to receive the title Prince Consort. It gave him social precedence over...