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...swamp near Beckleyville, Md. are hidden tombstones (dumped there by road builders) which will disperse the genealogical mystery separating the $20,000,000 estate of Henrietta Garrett of Philadelphia from some 25,000 claimants...
...house of doves. The villainess: Aunt Barbe, an aging beauty with a body like a whip, fox-red hair, a spoiled child's genius for misusing others, and a voracity for doing evil which grows in ratio to her sense of guilt. She works out on her niece Henrietta, on her sheeplike old nurse Nana, on the peasants, on an intense young priest who manages to frighten her. She becomes fascinated by an Oriental theory that one may be cleansed of venereal disease through sexual intercourse with a virgin child; that leads her to its spiritual parallel, the relief...
Preparedness, but not military preparedness, was the keynote struck by N. E. A.'s president, stout Amy Henrietta Hinrichs of New Orleans, before the 11,000 delegates: "Universal education is ... the first line of defense in our national life." Other orators...
Spanish Prince Ludovico Pignatelli filed an application in Manhattan Supreme Court asking that Italian Prince Guido Pignatelli and his precariously married* wife, Henrietta Hartford, $200,000,000 A. & P. store heiress, be ordered to drop the titles from their names. Complained Ludovico: "Guido has assumed the designation [Prince Pignatelli] so he might pirate the reputation and prominence of the petitioner. ... By reason thereof he . . . found the doors of New York's best society, which ordinarily would have been barred to him, suddenly open...
...city would double its income" by selling the power itself. But in San Francisco the decision caused a crisis. Mayor Rossi, his gall bladder and budget both upset, from his sickbed talked of canceling pay raises for city employes, increasing the tax rate 28?. Citizeness Henrietta Wright, a publicity-shy lawyers' stenographer, sued P. G. & E. on behalf of the city for $75,000,000-about what P. G. & E. has grossed from Hetch Hetchy power in 15 years. Newspapers lined up. Said the Scripps-Howard News, long in favor of public ownership...