Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General had changed and the new man's name had to be used...
...document bears an impressive-sounding letterhead, and the language is unmistakably legal. What it says is that a named person has died, leaving an unclaimed estate. "The heirs of said deceased are unknown," the message explains, and an inquiry is being made of many people with the same last name on the chance that one might be the rightful heir. If you are interested in further information, would you please send a $6 "copy fee" to cover the cost of obtaining "duplicates of documents filed," so that you might better ascertain whether you have a claim...
...scheme can use a photocopy machine and the mails to approach thousands of potential customers. All he has to do is follow the local probate court proceedings and then use phone books from all over the U.S. to find addresses of people with the same last name as that of someone who leaves an unclaimed estate. Each addressee that bites means another $6. Moreover, it may be that no law is being broken. The estate spoken of always exists (although its unmentioned debts may be greater than its quoted value); the heirs are indeed unknown; the addressee is always warned...
...sport's first great television heroes, the Saturday idol of millions, long before anyone heard of Arnie Palmer or Wilt the Stilt or Johnny U. Thousands of people sent him letters and greeting cards, little children organized fan clubs in his name, his portrait appeared on the cover of TIME (May 31, 1954). When he lost the 1953 Kentucky Derby by a head to a 25-1 shot named Dark Star, fans turned from their TV sets in tears...
...over the radio networks every night from hotel ballrooms across the U.S. All that has been relegated to memory-and to the big-band buffs. These are the forlorn breed of fanatics who can not only instantly identify Artie Shaw's 1940 recording of Stardust but can even name the trumpet and trombone soloists on it (Billy Butterfield and Jack Jenney), and who thrive as much on nonmusical nostalgia as on genuine musical connoisseurship...