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...Hitherto French courts have held that such an exemplary mistress, whether or not her master was also married, had a juridical right to share modestly with the relatives of her man in whatever is collected from the person to blame for the accident which killed him. Mistresses mourned, wives exulted in France this week for the Highest Tribunal, after hearing in one day three mistresses try to prove themselves admirable, handed down the blanket decision that henceforth any woman upon the sudden death by accident of her man shall "have right to damages only if united to the victim...
...Roosevelt when it was done. The President suggested no changes, and Mrs. Roosevelt's dapper literary agent, George T. Bye, made the sale not to Crowell's Companion but to Curtis Publishing Co.'s Home Journal. Proceeds of Mrs. Roosevelt's writing and broadcasting have hitherto been donated to various charities. What charity would receive the Journal's undoubtedly large check (probably upwards of $50,000), Mrs. Roosevelt last week...
Trusts have hitherto objected strenuously to comparisons with stockmarket averages. This year Tri-Continental was only too glad to point out that in comparison with an average gain of 32% for general management trusts, Standard Statistics' 90-stock average rose only 27.9% the New York Times' 50-stock average only 21.1%, the 782 common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange about 25%. The Dow-Jones averages showed a 24.5% rise in industrials, 32.5% in rails, 17.9% in utilities. Actually the comparison was even more favorable to the trusts because part of their assets were in cash...
...Hitherto undefeated and challenged by wrestlers with top-notch records, Bill Daughaday and Tudor Gardiner in the 165-pound and unlimited classes look forward to their greatest test today. Most doubtful are the outcomes of the 118-pound match in which Sears will face an Eli grappler of far greater experience and of the 175-pound contest when Lewis, who recently drew with Lacey, the Exeter champion, will oppose Jauer of the Blue...
This attitude toward great scientists is of comparatively recent birth. Hitherto the study of scientists has been directed primarily toward the facts of their discoveries, Mr. Crowther pointed out, and it has not touched upon why such a discovery was made in one place and at one time rather than at any other time and place, or what effect such a discovery had on current thought...