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...lingering doubt as to why the late Philanthropist Vincent Astor cut his half brother, sometime Playboy John Jacob Astor, out of his will was cleared up by Vincent's widow, Brooke Russell Astor. Testifying in an examination preceding the trial in which J. J. will strive to get a slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million fortune, Brooke Astor told of Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless...
...Chicago federal court, the most important legal decision affecting U.S. business this year-and perhaps for years to come-was handed down last week by snow-mustached Judge Walter Jacob LaBuy. Framing the terms for the long-awaited divorce of Du Pont from its 23% control of General Motors stock, Judge LaBuy ruled that Du Pont may keep its 63 million shares (market value: $3.5 billion), but must give up its voting rights...
...that time, the vote for recommittal was 49-42, on a compromise amendment by Senator Jacob K. Javits (R., N.Y.) which would have eliminated only the disclaimer affidavit and not the loyalty affirmation. For this reason, Williams sees little promise in the new Kennedy-Clark strategy of separating the two provisions and concentrating their attack on the disclaimer affidavit...
...Charles Jacob Stewart, 61, general partner in Lazard Freres & Co., New York investment bankers, was elected president of Manufacturers Trust Co., fifth largest bank in New York City, succeeding Eugene S. Hooper, 61, who is retiring. Dallas-born, Stewart graduated from Yale in 1918, joined New York Trust's commercial banking department in 1930, rose to the presidency in 1949, joined Lazard Freres...
...17th century. Last week its revival was a major topic in Lutheran Germany. The occasion was this year's Kirchentag in Munich (TIME, Aug. 24), where no fewer than 2,000 Protestants went to confession in the two churches designated for the purpose. Says Pastor Hans Jacob of Bensheim, who heard many of them: "For 90% of them, confession was a new experience, and all of them felt it opened...