Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanks to Chicago grandmothers like Mrs. Potter Palmer, the impressionist-loving grande dame of Chicago society in the 1890s, to say nothing of grandfathers like Hardware Heir Frederic Clay Bartlett, who gave the museum Seurat's La Grande Jatte, the Art Institute today is the possessor of a 19th century impressionist and postimpressionist collection among the best in the U.S. Under rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.), Harvard-honed Charles C. Cunningham, 57, who took over as director a year ago after 20 years at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum, the museum has hewed to a policy...
...document bears an impressive-sounding letterhead, and the language is unmistakably legal. What it says is that a named person has died, leaving an unclaimed estate. "The heirs of said deceased are unknown," the message explains, and an inquiry is being made of many people with the same last name on the chance that one might be the rightful heir. If you are interested in further information, would you please send a $6 "copy fee" to cover the cost of obtaining "duplicates of documents filed," so that you might better ascertain whether you have a claim...
Fair enough, or so it seems. And because it does, it is the big, new, easy-money scheme of the year, according to the Post Office Department. In essence, it merely gives a modern twist to the age-old missing-heir dodge. The twist is important. In the past, a con man would approach a few selected victims with a well-prepared line of talk and ask for a few hundred dollars to cover his expenses. The large sum requested required a risky in-person performance. A promoter of the new scheme can use a photocopy machine and the mails...
...addressees, even those who fully understand what the letter says may be tempted; $6 against an inheritance of thousands sounds like a good gamble. But, says Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien, there is "no evidence that the materials furnished by these promoters has located a single missing heir...
...HEIR APPARENT, by William V. Shannon, examines the things that Bobby Kennedy has going for and against him in his bid for the presidency. Conclusion: there may be some formidable obstacles...