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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...
...visit by a Trappist monk called Brother Leo (Christopher Gregory) of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass. Brother Leo, whom she had known before, was apparently doing some fund raising on behalf of two fledgling Trappist monasteries that St. Joseph's was establishing in South America. Sarita took a liking to the personable monk, who received permission from his abbot to stay with her while she completed arrangements for disposing of her estate. She even gave power of attorney to Brother Leo, who took her off to the sites of the new monasteries in Chile and Argentina...
...June 1960, to the surprise of her Texas friends, Sarita dropped the three members of the foundation, substituted Brother Leo and two prominent Catholics from the East Coast: Millionaire Layman J. Peter Grace, president of W. R. Grace & Co., and the Rev. Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., head of a prayer-crusading organization called Family Rosary, Inc. Eight months later Sarita died of cancer in a Manhattan hospital; Brother Leo, her constant companion during her last days, was at her bedside...
...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...