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...judgment and scientific rigor of thought, adds that his friend knows ten languages, has long been associated with "leading persons in control of the economic, financial and political life in Europe," but "his official position obliges him to remain anonymous." Most readers will probably deduce Author Reveille as a maverick German economist...
...year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women-all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protégées: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan...
Died. William Guggenheim, 72, philanthropist, maverick younger brother of the copper & nitrate tycoons; in Manhattan. He retired from active participation in the family's businesses in 1900, 16 years later sued Brothers Isaac, Daniel, Murray, Solomon and Simon for $10,000,000, charging they had induced him to waive rights in Chilean mines of whose values he had been ignorant...
...runoff over, Maverick's head for the first time seemed bowed. Said he, out of the $150,000 he had when he entered politics, only $210.20, his house and 20,000 books were left. He plans to rusticate in Mexico, not talk any English for 90 days. But few believed that Maury Maverick's public career was over...
Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: "[Maverick] is a friend of the President. He has considerable ability. It is probable that, with the nation in its state of 'unlimited emergency,' excellent use can be made of his versatile gifts. He is a fighting fool...