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ALBERT I. BEacH, 55 YEARS Oxvp, LAWYER AND FORMER Mayor, WHO Died Last Nhut at His Home, ceiving indefinite answers from the maid asked if he or Mrs. Wood could assist any by coming to the Beach home. “No,” the maid replied, “a doctor is here now.” As the guests mingled together, discussing the telephone call, a sec ond message was received informing them of the death of the former mayor. Mrs. Wood said last night those invited to attend the dinner had met frequently for other parties of a sim ilar nature at one of their homes. Mr. Wood is head of the mortgage firm that bears his name, HEART AILMENT FOR YEARS. Mr. Beach, who was 55 years old, had suffered from a heart ailment the last few years. However, he was at his law office in the Fidelity building yesterday and had been in good spirits throughout the day. In fact the day on which death was to come so suddenly had been an exceedingly happy one. He was “walking on air,” the former mayor had commented. Victory finally had come in a long and important litigation, involving various trips to Montana and San Francisco. The suit had been won and after the dinner party at the Wilson D. Wood home, the lawyer and his wife had plans for a trip to Topeka today, with a trip together tomorrow to Chicago, where re mained some formalities in closing the litigation. In the leisure of a Saturday after noon, ‘husband and wife had been for a drive under the still, warm January skies. ‘ This drive and the planned trips together were char acteristic of a constant and happy companionship ,over the three decades of their married life. A LOVE THAT LASTED. Friends would comment that the Beaches were much in love, as obviously they had been in their campus days at Lawrence. The marriage of Albert Beach, law college graduate of that year,, and Miss Marjorie Marshall of Lawrence, December,21, 1907, was, that of, two young, people, one an untried, fledg ling lawyer,eager to venture ,to gether upon life and career “without Wallis for “security, coach u lite; “Herbert Hadley, a brilliant name in the “fist. of Missouri’s ‘governors. Hadley, ‘who had turned Beach: to, the law and had advised a course at aS ‘University, approved the mage, telling the fee (Continued on Page, 194') ‘late Col. Jacob Ruppert, beer, base ball and real estate magnate. The trim Yankee Cinderella, who migrated to the big city frog, Spring field, Mass., and looks it, sat in her modest, over-crowded apartment to day and said, “I like the simple things of life best and am easily pleased, I am not interested in a mink coat.” Neither is she interested in re turning to the Broadway stage. Where she once played “bit” parts, nor in angering a Broadway pro duction, nor in jewelry, nor in any prince charming, nor in marriage, nor in learning to cook, NOT PARTICULARLY EXCITED. She “isn’t particularly excited” about inheriting’ one-third of the world’s most famous ball club, the champion New York Yankees; she likes baseball but isn’t a fan; but doesn't have any favorite Yank; she likes the theater and the movies and all actors are her favorites; she reads philosophy in preference to novels and one glass of beer is her limit at any one sitting. She likes Wagnerian operas, still grieves over the death of her dog “Beppo” four years ago, has bought many a sweepstakes ticket but “never even dreamed of winning,” has never consulted a fortune teller, likes to skate, swim and play golf and ten nis, dislikes jazz music and dancing and is determined to become,a con firmed baseball fan. This newest Cinderella is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 114 pounds and wears nice clothes but is no potential rival of Mrs. Harrison Williams. In brief, the Cinderella looks like a good, homegirl. And at the mo ment she is flabbergasted by her great and good fortune. Her New England heritage is vis ible:in everything Miss Weyant says and does.. She looks ten’ years eyes and’reddish ‘brown hair, worn in a medium long-bob. She does her own hair.’ Hér nails are the work of a manicurist, she added. She quit the stage, where her spe cialty was interpretative dancing, when jazz came in and brought with it: tap-dancers and jitterbites, $300,000 in FEW Days. Within : ‘a few days this 37-year old, former actress will receive a cash bequest..of. $300,000, forerunner of a at of millions. which are 's when the ‘estate is sei zed. and“she ‘receives: one-third of the Ruppert entire fortune which is estimat at from, 30 million dollars -million dollars, ‘including a peste inte seat in the Yankees, Colonel Ruppert's two nieces, slappert Silleck Holleran k, Greenwich, Conn, and (Continued on Page 24),
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Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Jan 22, 1939
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