People: Apr. 26, 1963 - TIME

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His "esteem and affection" and a mere $25,000 were the total bequest to Socialite Actress Dina Merrill, 37, from the estimated $3,800,000 estate of her father, Edward F. Hutton, founder of Wall Street's E. F. Hutton & Co. brokerage concern. Considering his daughter "amply provided for" (Dina's husband is Colgate Heir Stanley M. Rumbough, her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Post May, heiress to the Post Toasties millions), the stockbroker left the greater share of his fortune to Third Wife Dorothy Dear Hutton, the remainder to be divided between Stepdaughter Joan Metzger Patterson and the three Rumbough children. But Dina, crisply unhappy about the division, filed suit in a Nassau County court. "My father's will disinherited my children—his only grandchildren," said she enigmatically. "I am taking action as any mother would."

Speaking at the Congressional Club in Washington, Australian Ambassador Sir Howard Beale, 64, sought to explain the inexplicable—British titles: "British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore is a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, neither of whom ever existed. I am a Knight Commander of the British Empire, which has ceased to exist. And our two recent colleagues from Jamaica and Trinidad are Knights Bachelor, with wives and families." Concluded Sir Howard: "Such an illogical people—no wonder the French didn't want them in the Common Market."

Uncle Sam stands to become principal beneficiary of a $43,954,062 estate left by Mrs. Lillian Timken, widow of a co-founder of the Timken Roller Bearing Co. Sequestered among art treasures in her Fifth Avenue apartment until she died in 1959 at the age of 78, the wealthy recluse gave her paintings (among them a Goya, two Rembrandts, two Titians and a Rubens) to three U.S. museums, intended her principal assets (stocks and bonds) for her heirs. But she failed to set up the proper trusts and other tax-reducing gimmicks, and so an appraisal filed in Manhattan Surrogate's Court indicates a bite of $28,175,009 to the Federal Government, $7,481,504 in state taxes.

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