Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Huddleston Rogers III, bespectacled Standard Oil heir who enraged the folk of Bethel, Conn, by grazing sheep on his lawn last June, moved into a new estate at Southampton, L.I., shortly trotted to police with a complaint of grand larceny. Standing on the $100,000 estate when he bought it, he said, was a holly tree. Now it was gone. Cried Rogers: "I liked that tree. My wife liked that tree." The chief of police went on a vacation...
...Command for delivery to Air Forces commands or to the British. But the boats are delivered by Consolidated's own Flight Operations. Flying boss of F.O. is a huge-boned, broad-faced airman named Russ Rogers, who in 1939 was flying a PBY (the Cuba) for Standard Oil Heir Richard Archbold in New Guinea when Rube Fleet decided to set up his own delivery service. Frank Learman, traffic manager of the new F.O., got him on the radio telephone, told him he was wanted...
...Thomas was photographed in even more annoying circumstances: receiving a writ from a process server. By way of the Seattle sheriff's office, His Majesty's Government notified Sir Thomas of its claim that he owed some $5,000 in back income taxes. The heir to Beecham's pills ("Worth a Guinea a Box") pleaded ignorance of the claim, cabled his solicitors to pay the claim, if just, or fight...
...Missing Heir? program (sponsored by Ironized Yeast and created by Lawyer James Waters and Adman Alfred Shebel), which for nearly two years has been dramatizing each week over CBS true tales of estranged souls whose deaths -and estates-were unknown to their presumptive heirs, last week turned up its luckiest missing heir so far: a quiet, 40-year-old, much-buffeted Chicagoan named Rawlins Phillips. His inheritance...
...dining-car steward on the Santa Fe, would not give up railroading. Father Phillips dropped dead in Kansas City last May. He had invested his earnings to good purpose. Fortnight ago his story was broadcast. Son Phillips and his wife had heard all but one of the Missing Heir programs. That evening they were-for the second time in two years-not listening. But friends told them about it. Last week they claimed their estate...