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...J. S. BURDETT Miami...
...down to his last $5,000,000 by his own admission, launched a legal attack on the estimated $100 million-plus estate of his late half brother, Philanthropist Vincent Astor, who died last February at 67. Left out of the will without a penny, J. J. charged that Testator Astor was "mentally ill when the paper was executed . . . suffering from senility [and] arteriosclerosis ... incompetent to make a will." J. J.'s main chance to break the will: for undisclosed reasons, Vincent Astor was indeed a patient in Manhattan's famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic while the document...
...charge against William J. Korpa in San Francisco Municipal Court was battery: he had beaten up two youths at a beach party. A husky 18-year-old with a stammer, Korpa had been in trouble with the police since he was 13, and his record, Judge Andrew J. Eyman felt, showed that "most of the usual avenues of rehabilitation had failed." Yet the court was reluctant to send the boy to jail, instead put him on two years' probation and added two conditions: 1) no drinking, and 2) attend church every Sunday...
Died. John J. Sheehy, 78, beefy (6 ft. 4 in., 250 Ibs.), longtime (1918-41) Sing Sing Prison guard and principal keeper (1926-41), who ruled his charges with a celebrated iron fist, once nipped a revolt by a right to the jaw of the ringleader that knocked him, legend says, halfway across the prison courtyard, kept Sing Sing quiet as a convent during the turbulent gangbuster era between world wars while prisons elsewhere often ran amuck; of a stroke; in North Tarrytown...
Using slides, Doctor J. Otto Brendel indicated that "nothing is new under the sun," during the third Thursday afternoon lecture, held on July 23. Brendel, a professor of fine arts and archeology at Columbia University, spoke on "Classical Style in Modern...