She-Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son...
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