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30 September 2009

COOGAN story 

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appearing in "Time Magazine", 29 SEP 1941, PAGE 1:

NEW HETTY GREEN

A furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's
empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight
on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan,
now well into her eighties, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel 
suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in
the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office
in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-
estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, The Polo Grounds 
where the Giants play).  She and her daughter, Jessie, do all the 
chores about their suite, which neither maid nor bellboy may enter.  
She never answers letters, for years has hardly glanced at a 
newspaper.  But before her Tammany husband died in 1915 whe spent 
eight years vainly trying to crash Newport society.  The book found 
on her bedroom table in Newport was Burke's Peerage - for 1910.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,766156,00.html

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