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Half of a million dollar estate willed to the University a year ago by Dr. Harry L. Frevert '05 may go to Eva Jean Schulz, who claims to be his widow by virtue of a common law marriage...
Ford Finance. Outsiders got a rare glimpse at the financial innards of the Ford Motor Co. when the late Henry Ford's widow-and executrix of his estate- filed an accounting in court. The company, which had been losing money in 1945 and 1946, had improved enough to pay dividends of $2 a share last December and $3 a share last April. About one-third of the $1,907,100 paid on the stock held by the estate went to grandchildren Henry, Benson, William and Josephine Ford, who were left the voting stock. The rest went to the Ford...
When success first came, Lehar was 35 -broad, bluff and charming. But he had had to fight for his laurels. The first rehearsals of The Merry Widow in Vienna seemed so bad that he had to plead with the director, "Let us at least open." Its Vienna success was instantaneous, and soon Paris, Berlin, London and New York were whistling the famous waltz. But the world never gave Lehar the serious reputation he thought he deserved. He wrote: "Most people are inclined to regard operettas as something inferior-entertaining no doubt, and full of easily remembered tunes-but distinctly lower...
Adolf Hitler had proposed some tinkering with The Merry Widow too. He used to see it as often as three times in a month, but he wanted Lehar to "modernize" it. Hitler's admiration cooled, and later Lehar was put under house arrest in Vienna because he had refused to abandon his wife, a "non-Aryan." At war's end, the composer fared hardly better with the Russians. When his wife Sophie told Red army soldiers that her husband's papers and manuscripts were priceless, they snorted "Capitalist!" and destroyed...
...Maine woman, a widow of 45, and she lived alone. When she had made up her mind to commit suicide, she laid her chin on the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun and pulled the trigger. The charge tore through her tongue, palate and nose, went on through the front part of the brain and out through the forehead...