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...success in the courts, like fame on the screen, can be fleeting. In the past six months, three rulings have dealt heirs of the famous a heavy blow. In December the California Supreme Court reversed the Lugosi decision. It also rejected the claims of a nephew of Rudolph Valentino, who had sued over a fictionalized account of his uncle's life broadcast on ABC-TV. Then in March a U.S. appeals court overturned the Tennessee ruling on the Presley statuettes...
There is no doubt that the Knesses make a better mousetrap. But ask a gathering of Knesses what makes it better, and you'll mostly get head scratching. Corn-belt born and bred, they are not given to long explanations. Eventually a young nephew says, "There's one unique thing that makes it special, and it would take an outsider years to figure out." Though no one is certain if a trade secret is involved, they decide not to discuss it further. Instead, a concise summary is offered: "There's mechanics there, good practical mechanics. But there...
...year after W.S.M.'s death, this fact became popularly known when Robin Maugham, a favored nephew, hastily published Somerset and All the Maughams. Those familiar magazine photos of the leathery legend haughtily observing the world from Villa Mauresque, his home on the French Riviera, could now be openly read as the image of an old iguana sniffing the Mediterranean air for young sailors...
...life, argues strenuously that we mustn't blame Charles for spending too much--he did it to maintain the prestige of the monarchy. Her affection for Charles leads her astray here: surely there was no need to have three royal mistresses at once on the royal payroll, and his nephew William, acceding to the throne in equally shaky circumstances, spent in his first year only slightly over half what Charles...
...Hoffman's nephew Ulmer Beetzel, now 61, and his wife Doris, 57, have lived for 26 years on the farm his grandfather worked after the Civil War. "It's an industry now, not a life," says Doris. "It's the life of Riley," says Ulmer, correcting her. No livestock, no need for extra help, the ticker tape running constantly at the Anchor co-operative grain elevator, bringing prices from the commodity exchange up in Chicago. But only one of the Beetzel's four children is a farmer...