If the late Henry Edwin Sever of Chicago had been as vague in the textbooks he published (Riverside Press) as he was in his will, he would never have made a fortune.
Mr. Sever, who died a childless widower in 1941, directed in his will that $1,622,-482 of his fortune be used to establish a "technological school" in his native Missouri. As soon as the will was published, six Missouri colleges put in a claim. The Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to...
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