Word: silleck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late, 71-year-old Colonel Jacob Ruppert, multimillionaire brewer, bachelor, owner of the World Champion New York Yankees. It disclosed that he had left all but $150,000 of his $40,000,000 fortune amassed in beer, baseball and real estate in trust for three women. Nieces Helen Silleck Holleran and Ruth Silleck Maguire each got one-third of the estate. To onetime bit-playing Actress Helen Winthrope Weyant, 37, "a very old friend," went the other third, and $300,000 in cash. To make sure that the Yankees would be maintained in the style to which they were accustomed...