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...late Philanthropist Vincent Astor is likely to go down in U.S. tax annals as the multimillionaire with the leastest -for the revenuers. Astor, who died last year at 67, left an estate appraised last week by New York State tax commissioners at an impressive $127,377,021.34. Out of this mountainous greenery came a nadir of sorts in mid-20th century U.S. estate taxes: $253,869.44-less than 0.2% of the amount that Astor could not take with him. How did Testator Astor do it? It seemed, under New York State and federal inheritance statutes, kind of easy: he left...
Avoid a Caesarean? In the U.S., only at New York City's Kings County Hospital has the vacuum extractor received extensive trial. Dr. Vincent Tricomi and colleagues have used it in 125 births since last September. Keenly aware of the suspicious attitude of the profession generally, they have been even more conservative than the British in selection of cases. But they have seen no ill effects, and believe the vacuum cup may save many mothers from difficult and dangerous forceps deliveries, or the alternative of a caesar-ean.* On results to date, the Brooklyn doctors are "cautiously enthusiastic...
...Doctor Vincent A. Beláunde, Peruvian diplomat, president, U.N. General Assembly LL.D...
...Chiropodist Earl G. Kaplan in his spare time, a dental clinic operated by volunteers from the Detroit Society of Dental Hygienists, a legal clinic manned by top lawyers. There is a Filipino Club, a Puerto Rican Club, a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous (membership: 1,000), a St. Vincent de Paul Society, a credit union that started with $80 in 1947, now has assets of $147,000; there is even a two-night-a-week "Corktown College" (tuition: $1.33 a month), which offers such courses as English, citizenship, Spanish and folk dancing with the slogan "Never too old to learn...
...candidates' religion, although much talk had been prophesied in view of the fact that West Virginia is 93% Protestant. The pastor of a United Brethren Church in Parkersburg told his flock that if Kennedy wins, "the Pope will be running the country," and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, stopping off in Charleston, doubted that a Catholic could remain independent. That was all, so far. And everyone remembered that in darkest 1928, Al Smith won West Virginia's Democratic primary (81,739-75,976) against Missouri's Protestant Senator James Reed...