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...appeared a small head of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s son Nelson had asked Rivera ''to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears." Rivera had countered by offering to balance Lenin with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The Rockefellers exploded, fired Rivera...
...Common law" marriages are of primary interest to the States as they affect property inheritances. Last week's law had one of its roots in the famed Erlanger-Fixel case (TIME. Dec. 28. 1931). Early in 1930 Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, wealthy theatre man, died, bequeathing to his brother and sisters an estate estimated at $75,000,000.* In 1912 he had been divorced, forbidden to remarry in New York State. At his death appeared a buxom ex-chorus girl named Charlotte Pixel who. as "Mrs. Erlanger," contested the will. The trial lasted for twelve weeks before Surrogate John Patrick...
Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted...
...they have always hated them with a closer cordiality in the opulent person of the College Tutoring Bureau. And the cruel professors those who like to go out into the barn and torture the horses, will find similar enjoyment in the bureaucratic dismay. But a Cambridge Plains of Abraham may carry disaster not only to the wolves, but also to the lambs whose hope they are, unless New York's Montcalm decides to give everybody a nice surprise and print the outlines himself...
...Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton, N. J. but no part of the University) under famed educator Dr. Abraham Flexner is expecting Dr. Einstein to occupy its chair of Mathematics, beginning next October. Last week the Institute opined that unworldly Dr. Einstein doubtless believed the Madrid appointment purely honorary...