Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...document bears an impressive-sounding letterhead, and the language is unmistakably legal. What it says is that a named person has died, leaving an unclaimed estate. "The heirs of said deceased are unknown," the message explains, and an inquiry is being made of many people with the same last name on the chance that one might be the rightful heir. If you are interested in further information, would you please send a $6 "copy fee" to cover the cost of obtaining "duplicates of documents filed," so that you might better ascertain whether you have a claim...
...last name as that of someone who leaves an unclaimed estate. Each addressee that bites means another $6. Moreover, it may be that no law is being broken. The estate spoken of always exists (although its unmentioned debts may be greater than its quoted value); the heirs are indeed unknown; the addressee is always warned that there is no reason to think that he necessarily has any claim; and, if he sends his money, he does get the promised document duplicates...
Destination Unknown. Wolman had his first brush with creditors in 1949 at age 22, when he and his brother opened a grocery store and could not pay $5,000 in bills. He issued promissory notes, then piled into a 1938 Chevrolet and drove off with his wife-destination unknown. Only a chance pickup of a Washington, D.C.-bound hitchhiker led them to that city, where he took a $75-a-week job in a paint store. His wife went to work for an insurance com pany. From their combined incomes, Wolman paid off the creditors, and in 1952 he decided...
...small-scale musical play. The prototype is The End, their enigmatic, 11½-minute string of visions apparently revolving around an Oedipus situation, in which Morrison portrays several roles-some behind a red mask. Last week, opening an engagement at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, they introduced The Unknown Soldier, an antiwar philippic with martial music, shouted commands, the loading click of a rifle and shots mixed in with instrumental passages...
Toys in the Attic is one of Lillian Hellman's workmanlike psychological geographies. In the New Orleans of another generation she sets two spinster sisters. Carrie Berniers, for reasons unknown, is in love with her younger brother Julian. She has, it is remarked, talked like an old maid since the age of 12. Anna, the elder sister, has taken her mother's place caring for the two younger children. Her reasons are not known...