Litigation loomed last week over the wills of Luis Firpo and Oscar Hammerstein II. Heavyweight Firpo, who battled Jack Dempsey in one of boxing's most thrilling evenings in the same year (1923) that Lyricist Hammerstein. with Wildflower, gave Broadway his first real hit, amassed his fortune not as the "Wild Bull of the Pampas" but as the owner of six ranches on it. But to whom did Bachelor Firpo leave the bulk of his estimated $4,000,000 estate? To his longtime great and good friend. Miss Blanca Picard—a bequest his relatives are now contesting in...
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