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Since he couldn't take it with him, Auto Millionheir Horace Dodge did the next best thing. He balled up his $2,500,000 estate so completely that everybody involved will be grey before getting a penny. Next to spending money, Dodge's favorite pastime seems to have been writing wills and codicils (at least eleven), and for a finishing touch he provided that the last one would be void if his mother outlived him. Naturally she did, and then led the charge of the litigant brigade. Though Mama is worth $65 million herself, she misses...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, long a showcase for avant-garde painting and sculpture, slapped a court complaint on outspoken A. & P. Millionheir Huntington Hartford, who once wrote of the modern artist: "Engrossed with evil, [he] has wandered off to some streamlined inferno in which he has burned in effigy the normal people of the earth." Purpose of the complaint: to enjoin Hartford from dubbing his proposed $2,000,000 museum on Columbus Circle "The Gallery of Modern...
Sour went the notes in the love song of Louis and Elaine Lorillard, he a tobacco millionheir, they co-founders and sponsors of the splashy, noisy Newport, R.I. annual jazz festival. Filing suit for separation, blonde, pretty Elaine-who met him in Italy during World War II, when he was an Army major, she a Red Cross aide-charged that Louis had locked her out of their Manhattan cooperative apartment and packed her belongings off to a nearby hotel while she was away for a weekend...
...Joanne to mingle with the right people in the right places-the Stork Club, El Morocco ,"21." She was a LIFE cover girl; the tabloids called her "the 1948 season's golden girl." Soon all the dreams came true: Joanne became engaged (after four proposals) to lanky British Millionheir Sportsman Robert Sweeny, 37, California-born wartime R.A.F. hero, onetime (1937) British amateur golf champion. Said the golden girl: "We're both so idealistic and romantic. We want everything just perfect...
Died. James Aloysius Robert ("Honest Bob") Quinn, 84, veteran baseball executive, who went broke as boss of the Boston Red Sox (1923-33) before selling out to Lumber Millionheir Tom Yawkey, later became president of the Boston Braves (1936-45), director of the National Baseball Museum (1948-52); in Providence...