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...Boston this week, one of the few world religions to spring from the U.S. held its annual meeting. The 7,500 Christian Scientists who assembled at the Mother Church on Falmouth Street elected a new president for the one-year term: pert, sixtyish Lora C. Rathvon, widow of' William R. Rathvon, who was corresponding secretary to Founder Mary Baker Eddy herself...
...Policeman Heflin, a tinhorn opportunist, wants her husband's money, too. He engineers a way to kill him in the line of duty by mistaking him for a prowler. Then he succeeds in convincing a court, the dead man's brother and even the remorseful widow that the murder was a tragic accident. She consents to marry him. But when Bridegroom Heflin puts together the brother's knowledge that the dead man was sterile and his bride's happy announcement that she expects a child, he quickly realizes that the sum is more than scandalous...
...from the latest nonfiction account of the mystery. In Rudolph: The Tragedy of Mayerling (TIME, Jan. 17, 1949), Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, whose uncle later married Rudolph's widow, reconstructs the affair as the climax of a psychopathic melodrama, motivated by Rudolph's unhealthy fascination for sex and death. According to Author Lonyay's version, the bored, philandering Rudolph, morbidly intrigued with the idea of double suicide, talks mistress Marie Vetsera (his third choice for the role) into the act, then takes ten hours to shoot himself after finishing...
When he first read the letter from England last January, James N. Gape, 46, a valve company salesman and father of two children, let out a whoop of joy. His cousin's widow, Mrs. Sibyl Marion Geraldine Gape, had named him heir to an English estate that had been in the family for 500 years; it was worth, even at current rates, a tidy $270,000. There were two fine ancestral houses-Caxton Manor, with 16 rooms, 1,000 acres and three farms in Cambridgeshire; St. Michael's Manor, a 14-room, spacious-lawned house in Hertfordshire that...
Interviewed in Oakland on her arrival from Tokyo, Mrs. Phyllis Gibbons, widow of a British diplomat and tutor for the past five years to Arthur MacArthur, described her young charge. He has, she said, "an outstanding talent for music." Otherwise, "he is just an ordinary American boy, like your son or mine. He is quite intelligent, but he can't spell-what American...