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Like Ronald Colman. A couple of admirers of Stevenson (one of them a Republican) got together a Stevenson-for-Senator committee and went to see the boss, Jacob M. Arvey, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee...
During his long career Sculptor Jacob Epstein, 71, has occasionally tried his hand at religious subjects. To the orthodox, the results have usually seemed artistically outrageous, if not downright blasphemous. Epstein's phallephoric Adam was denounced as pornography; his Jacob and the Angel, billed as "the world's greatest shocker," went on tour in an artistic peepshow; G. K. Chesterton took one look at his square, squat Ecce Homo, then thundered at it as "one of the greatest insults to religion I've ever seen...
America's Town Meeting of the Air (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC). "How Can We Protect Citizens Behind the Iron Curtain?" Speakers: Robert Vogeler, Senators John Sparkman and George A. Smathers, Representative Jacob Javits...
...with it. ¶ Mrs. Therese K. Butler, 60, who was brought "back from the dead" at a San Francisco city hospital after an attempt at suicide (TIME, Nov. 26), asked $533.70 damages last week for burns she claims she suffered during treatment to restore her circulation. City Health Director Jacob C. Geiger, hopping mad, promised to send Mrs. Butler a bill for the "extraordinary" care she had received, which included round-the-clock nursing and blood transfusions. Said Geiger: "It's an extraordinary thing to be sued for saving a life...
Some discrepancies troubled the U.S.-Sixty-six U.S. names which appeared on a list of no furnished to the Red Cross in August and September 1950 by the Communists were not on last week's roster. In August, Russia's ineffable Jacob Malik had mentioned the names of 38 U.S. prisoners who, he said, had signed an end-the-war appeal. Of these, only ten were on the list...