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Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly Sr., who died last month at 70, left a self-drawn last will and testament just as fabulous and full of fun as most of his life. Happy Jack Kelly, up from hod carrying to become a millionaire and father of a Princess, wanted no squabbling over his estate. All his legatees knew in advance exactly what he meant to leave them. With that matter out of the way, Kelly sat down and penned words of wit and wisdom. To his sons-in-law (including Monaco's Prince Rainier), he left nary a penny: "I don't want to give the impression that I am against sons-in-law. If they are the right type, they will provide for themselves and their families."
Along with a third of his estate, Kelly left his wife Margaret a wry admonition: "Give my son 'Kell' all my personal be longings . . . except the ties, shirts, sweaters and socks, as it seems unnecessary to give him something of which he has already taken possession." After other warnings against a family tendency to gamble and speculate in wildcat stocks. Jack Kelly bade a moving farewell to all his loved ones: "Just remember, when I shove off for greener pastures, or whatever it is on the other side of the curtain, that I do it unafraid, and, if you must know, a little
curious." Speaking at a Pacific Coast writer's powwow, Emmy-winning TV Producer David Susskind, moderator of his own 10 p.,m.-to-sometime chitchat program (Open End), beamed out in the New York City area, was asked which of three presidential candidates on his recent shows came on as the strongest interviewee. Liberal Democrat Susskind gave Liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller the poorest marks: "He evaded and dodged every effort to get him to substantiate what he had said in public only a few days earlier." Another disheartening performer was Democrat Adlai Stevenson: "I approached him with something like idolatry, which I fear came through on the show. But I was disappointed in him. There was a great vagueness, a sort of drifting about in space." The winner, hardly an idol of Susskind's, was Republican Richard Nixon: "I'm not a Nixon fan, but I was enormously impressed. Unlike his colleague in the White House, he knows what he is talking about. He is amazing."
In Meeker, Colo., Minnewa Bell Roosevelt, 48, fourth wife of Local Rancher Elliott Roosevelt, 49, sued him for divorce on the ground of mental cruelty.