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...Lyme, Conn., the 37th annual summer exhibition of the Lyme Art Association opened with 270 pieces in the big, grey-shingled gallery that fronts the Boston Post Road. Predominately conservative, it included water colors and prints, skilful oils by Ogden Pleissner and Abram Poole, at prices that ranged from $5 for etchings to $2,500 for Ivan G. Olinsky's strong oil, John and Marie...
...four volume set of the Colonial History of New York. But the substance of the letter was Lord Macaulay's Whiggish reflections on Randall's biography of Thomas Jefferson and on the political future of the U. S. This letter stirred in Republican James Abram Garfield so much resentment that 21 years later he flayed it from the stump during a Congressional campaign.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt, like Garfield before him, chose Macaulay's letter as a good butt for political rebuttal...
...Dauphin County Court at Harrisburg to compel the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect by escheat some 15 millions tucked away in the treasuries of Pennsylvania's 150 biggest corporations. If the suit succeeds, its two principal sponsors, a pair of young Philadelphia lawyers named Michael Edelman and Abram Jere Creskoff stand to collect $3,000,000 as the State's informers...
...heated that spectators left their seats, circled the defense attorney and the plaintiff as questions disclosed that the check was a routine interest payment on $9,998 of Soviet bonds which Dr. Freeman had purchased for his mother's estate; that Dr. Freeman had been Boston-born Abram Ellis Friedman until he changed his name in 1923 "because I thought it stood as a handicap".; that Dr. Freeman believed "to talk about God, you must first create an image, and then talk about the image you have created"; that Dr. Freeman in his book Social Psychology, had reported that...
Allied is fighting block-booking by both national and State legislation. Before Congress in Washington is the Neely-Pettengill bill which outlaws block-booking. Last year the bill stuck in committee. This year Lawyer Abram Fern Myers, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, is trying to drive it through. Meanwhile Al Steffes is leading the drive for State legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year...