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Peg-legged, pleasure-loving Edward Rowland Robinson Green died at the Lake Placid Club last June at 67, his wealth estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000. He was the son of Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street...
Sole heirs to Hetty's residuary estate (grown to nearly $100,000,000 before it was divided 50-50 in 1926) were Son Ned and Daughter Hetty (Mrs. Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks). She kept Ned from marrying while she was alive and approved only of Daughter Hetty...
Fond as Hetty was of Son Ned, she was too stingy to call in a doctor when he was injured in a childhood coasting accident and one leg eventually had to be amputated. Ned was schooled at Fordham College and in real-estate law in Manhattan and Chicago before Hetty...
Tall, sharp-nosed, bespectacled Mrs. Wilks, now 66, found an old will of her brother's in the offices of Green Estates, Inc. at No. 111 Broadway in Manhattan. Drawn in Texas in 1908-nine years before his marriage - the 180-word document left Colonel Green's entire...
Expeditions were carried on in two fields. In Tarsus, Cilicia, a second season of excavation was conducted jointly with Bryn Mawr College and the Archeological Institute of America. It was under the direction of Dr. Hetty Goldman, the Museum's Excavator in Greek Lands. Another expedition is now in the...