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Michael D. Butler '56 of White Bear Lake, Minn, and Kirkland House will receive the Jacob Wendell Scholarship this year...
...most of his creative lifetime, Sculptor Jacob Epstein has been outraging public commentators on good taste and good morals with his lumpish, aggressively individualistic statuary. G. K. Chesterton denounced his Ecce Homo as an "insult"; the London Times called his Genesis "repellent." Such criticism has convinced Epstein that he is a persecuted, misunderstood genius, denied the recognition due to one of the world's greatest living sculptors. Last week an accolade came to Epstein which should convince him that the world now acknowledges him both as an artist and as a public figure of standing and respect...
...curtain came down on an important antitrust case kst week. In Manhattan, Federal Judge John C. Knox dismissed the Government's four-year-old antitrust suit against Showmen Jacob J. Shubert, the late Lee Shubert and four other defendants, for monopolizing the legitimate-theater business in the U.S. Citing the Supreme Court's refusal to apply the antitrust laws to professional baseball, Judge Knox ruled that the showmen enjoyed the same freedom from antitrust action...
...Jacob Gruber, a New York lawyer representing a client under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, persuaded a switchboard operator in an SEC office to plug him in on calls to another SEC office. Sentence: a year and a day in prison, $1,000 fine. The operator drew a suspended sentence...
Died. Lee ("Mister Lee") Shubert, 78, president of Shubert Theater Corp., iron-fisted producer-landlord of the U.S. legitimate stage; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. With his brothers, Jacob ("J.J.") and Sam, Lee Shubert descended on Broadway from Syracuse, N.Y. in 1900, by the end of the booming '20s controlled an estimated $400 million in theatrical real estate. Working 15 hours a day, he survived both the Depression and the influx of movies, remorselessly squeezed out potential competitors. No man for publicity, he kept his 1936 marriage to Showgirl Marcella Swanson a secret for twelve years (until...