Radio's quest for a missing "Babe" ended last week in Toronto when a United church, three ex-baby-burlesqueens and the indignant relatives of a plumber named William John Wright agreed out of court to split his $12,500 estate. The case was the screwiest yet aired by the CBS Court of Missing Heirs, which on a coast-to-coast hookup has unearthed claimants to over $400,000.
Plumber Wright wanted a girl named Wallie ("Babe") Coughlin to inherit his legacy. But all he knew about her was that he had seen her in 1918 at the age of five, toddling around the stage of a burlesque house...
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