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...motion filed Tuesday, the publishing firm asked the Federal Court in Boston to held the College Tutoring Bureau's proprietors. Joseph R. Hurvitz and Abraham Segel, in contempt of court for violating an injunction obtained in 1933 against the Bureau for copyright infractions...
Acting to reinforce an injunction obtained in 1933 against the College Tutoring Bureau for copyright violations, attorneys for the MacMillan Company, publishers, in a motion filed yesterday asked the U. S. District Court of Massachusetts to hold the Bureau's proprietors, Joseph H. Hurvitz and Abraham Segel, in contempt of Court...
Henry Horner was known to one-&-all in Illinois as an honest, jovial old baldicoot who loved movies, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and his job as Governor. In November 1938, good Mr. Horner fell ill, straightway became a man of mystery. In the last 17 months probably no more than a dozen people have seen him. His illness has been variously reported: a stroke, a second stroke, a third, a blood clot, a heart spasm, cancer of the throat, pneumonia, diabetes, paralysis...
Secret of Roy Harris' long pull to success is his uncompromising individualism. He was 25 before he ever got a lesson in musical composition. Like Abraham Lincoln, on whose birthday he was born, he got his education the hard way, all by himself. In 1918, when he was mustered out of the Army, he drove a truck for a living, delivering 3,000 lb. of butter and 300 dozen eggs a day around Los Angeles...
White-haired Lawyer Walter Gould Lincoln, eighth cousin of Abraham Lincoln, asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Henry M. Willis for an injunction to halt cinema showing of Abe Lincoln in Illinois (TIME, Feb. 5). His objection: the film gives the impression that his cousin, who died 75 years ago, was "lazy, shiftless, vacillating and had no ambition...