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...least 30 years the name of Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has made news in London and enraged conservative Britons (TIME, March 25, 1935 et ante). Last week after nearly two years of comparative obscurity, the head fell off one of his earliest statues and slapped Sculptor Epstein right into the headlines again...
...hours to acquit Frank Zintak, who returned to the courtroom when the verdict was brought in long enough to repeat Samuel Insull's lines: "I never in my life did anything wrong." Following a revealing investigation into the Zintak jury's joyride Judge Benjamin P. Epstein last week held the entire panel in contempt of court. Five jurors who drank & danced were sentenced to serve five days in jail. Six who drank but did not dance received three-day sentences. A 37-year-old telephone mechanic named Leo Fahey, who merely watched, was fined...
...been requested to pose with a bathing beauty and I am nattered." On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson and Max Epstein, Chicago tank car tycoon who chairmanned the Wartime Draft Board. "Yellow fever." observed adventuring Dr. Heiser. "has been largely driven back into Africa. . . . One infected person or one infected mosquito carried to Europe or India by plane could start an epidemic that would wipe out millions. It would probably...
...Alford, Jr, '40, H. B. Caldwell '40, G. M. Clements '40, R. W. Day '39, R. I. Downs, Jr, '39, D. S. Epstein '39, R. W. Gordon '38, R. S. Hall '40, R. Holder '40, F. G. Morris '38, J. N. Muller '40, L. J. Profit Sp., R. J. Ryan '40, R. H. Shepard '40, N. C. Updegraff '40, J. R. van Horne, Jr, '40, A. A. Vitagliano '39, W. Whitman '38, and R. D. Woodward...
...Court of California had ruled that "there is nothing in the State statutes prohibiting pawnbrokers and personal property brokers from charging any rate of interest they please." Big fiction feature of The Pawnbrokers' Journal was "A Fair Exchange" by Harry Irving Shumway. This story opens with Pawnbroker Moe Epstein appraising a diamond for his friend Marcus. Says Moe: "A full quarter of a carat but the dirtiest diamond I ever see. Nine dollars is the very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray of fountain pens, then balks because the pens appear...