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Acquitted, Dorothea Wendt Livermore, 38, divorced wife of Wall Street Plunger Jesse Livermore Sr.; of assault charges after shooting her 16-year-old son Jesse Jr. while he was staging a drinking bout in her California home (TIME, Dec. 9); in Santa Barbara, Calif. In absolving his mother, Jesse Jr. testified that the gun went off when he forced it into her hands as the climax of a maudlin "mock death scene...
...mother during a Thanksgiving drinking bout last autumn (TIME, Dec. 9), Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, contracted pneumonia in his wounded lung, underwent two operations, hovered for a month on Death's verge, then slowly began to recover in a Santa Barbara hospital. Meanwhile his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Long-cope, was charged with assault with intent to murder, released pending, appearance in court next week. His father, famed stock-trader, flew to Santa Barbara with his third wife, secured legal custody of his son. Last week Son Jesse walked out of the hospital, thin but well, chose...
...drunk so Mother will know how it looks and will stop her drinking," said Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, schoolboy son of the famed stock market trader, when he returned to his mother's home at Montecito, Calif., late Thanksgiving evening. In the big pink stucco house Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, who divorced Trader Livermore in 1932, was giving a drinking party. Son Jesse began downing a quart of whiskey. Screamed tipsy Mrs. Livermore: "I'd rather see you dead than drinking!" Son Jesse lurched into another room, returned with one of the guns he found there. Challenged...
...cast, consisting of five Harvard men and four Radcliffe students, has been announced as follows: Wilbur L. Cummings, Jr. '37, Charles R. Moore '35, Howard E. Roman '36, Richard H. Nagles '37, John Briggs, 3d, Miss Dorothea MacMillan, Miss Sylvia Taylor, Miss Peggy Mast, and Miss Altmann...
Born. To Wilhelm II, 75, onetime Emperor of Germany: a great-grand-daughter, first child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of the onetime Crown Prince, and of Dorothea von Salviati, a commoner whom Prince Wilhelm married in June...