Word: sarita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stake is the fortune-which may prove to be worth as much as $300 million-left by the late Sarita Kenedy East. She was a granddaughter of Captain Mifflin Kenedy, who was co-founder of the famed King Ranch and later became sole owner of the neighboring La Parra Ranch-an empire of 400,000 acres and 25,000 head of cattle. Sarita was an aloof and eccentric widow who liked her whisky and was more at ease with her Mexican ranch hands than with her wealthy landowning neighbors...
...will in January 1960 leaving the bulk of her estate-a half-share of La Parra that includes rights to most of its untapped gas and oil-to a private charitable foundation. Codicils later named the Most Rev. Mariano Garriga, Roman Catholic Bishop of Corpus Christi, one of Sarita's cousins, and her lawyer as foundation members...
...roles, I can find only praise for Mr. David Adam, a profound and sonorous Private Willis; for Mr. Barnet Skolnick, a portly Strephon, made up (for some reason) to look like Franz Joseph Haydn; for Miss Kay Churchill, a veritable Little Mary Sunshine of a Phyllis; and for Miss Sarita Matney, Iolanthe herself, who is a most pleasant and motherly fairy...