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...called in the Orphans' Court a case which was such a case that 550 Philadelphia lawyers were needed, and in addition, 2,500 from outside the prosperous pale of Philadelphia's bar. Proceedings in Case No. 2552 of 1932 are to determine the heirs, if any, of Henrietta Edwardina Garrett, deceased. Claiming her estate of more than $20,000,000 are some 17,000 persons from every State in the U. S. and 29 foreign countries, each of whom has been assured of a "day in court...
...days in court" for 275 claimants. At that rate it will take 15 years to hear the "heirs." To make this unlikely the court has distributed a complicated questionnaire to fill out which asks for such information as the full name and place of marriage of the one of Henrietta Garrett's 16 great -great -grandparents through which the claimant's relationship to her is asserted. Already 280 "common ancestors" have been put forward...
...COOKE-Henrietta M. Larson- Harvard University Press...
...expert enough to beat any other girl player in the world. She left the University of California as a senior in 1930. She fulfilled an ambition to write; of three able books her autobiography, Beyond the Game, is last and best. She was taught to ride to hounds by Henrietta Bingham, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. She achieved the goal of all young female notables by establishing a fashion in clothes. This was when Bunny Austin advised her to play tennis in shorts and she did so in the presence...
...Shapley, now director of Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks, the period gradually lengthening to three weeks. Discoverer was not Dr. Shapley but another able member of the Harvard staff: Miss Henrietta Hill Swope, 33, daughter of General Electric's President Gerard Swope...