Word: segur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Appellate Court ruled Monday that Mrs. Greer's illegitimate son was legally entitled to at least one half of her fortune, but Willard B. Segur Jr., the man who would have received it, died in a Boston hospital a year ago. This transfers his share of the fortune to the Commonwealth, which has acted as his estate in the controversy, and will probably claim and keep his share of the money. The case probably will be decided later this month...
Anonymity. Harold Segur grew up, gradually stopped worrying about who his parents were. He married, had four sons of his own, finally became a grandfather. At 58 he was a mild, grey-haired, paunchy, average man. He wore steel-rimmed spectacles, had an average job (employment manager for a branch of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co.), lived in an average frame house in an average Worcester, Mass, neighborhood...
...story: two months before her death last summer, a rich, British-born, Park Avenue socialite named Mrs. Mabel Seymour Greer told him of a girlhood indiscretion. She had borne a child out of wedlock in Boston more than half a century before. The father: Dr. Willard B. Segur. In Armbruster's opinion her child and only heir was the doctor's adopted son, Harold Alfred Segur...
...Known." Harold Segur's first emotions we're bewilderment and pity. Cried he: "I never heard of Mrs. Greer. If I had only known, I would have hurried...
...magnifying glass. The tabloid New York Daily News began referring to him as a Love Child. The tabloid Daily Mirror, disregarding facts, made up a raffish story of its own. It suggested that Mrs. Greer had been secretly married to the late George V of England, concluded that Harold Segur was probably the Duke of Windsor's half brother. Segur grew more & more confused...