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Mallory R. Smith, Greenville, S.C., Sherman M. Tonkonow, Meriden, Conn., Ralph B. Sussman, Newark, N. J., Norman D. Blotner, Beverly, Mass., Joseph V. Cavanagh, Providence, R. I., George H. Fraser, Monticello, Ia., Isadore Gromfine, Buffalo, N. Y., Murray Horwitz, Hollis, L. I., N. Y., Paul Melrose, Hartford, Conn., Jacob Rabinowitz, Catskill, N. Y., William P. Reiss, Newark, N. J., and Joseph S. Rogan, Roxbury, Mass...
Utopia Undone. Commanding officer at Fort Bragg, N. C. is Major General Jacob Loucks Devers. Until last September his post was the peaceful habitat of some 5,000 field artillerymen. Aside from more or less perfunctory summer maneuvers, nothing much ever happened at Fort Bragg to disturb the routine of life in the hand some brick barracks, the pleasant officers' quarters, the not-so-pleasant, ramshackle quarters for noncoms. Some of the men at Fort Bragg had been there since World War I, hoped to die there. Older officers thought highly of Bragg as a quiet place to pass...
Last week Sculptor Jacob Epstein made news by exhibiting in Manhattan a statue that no one could possibly object to. This Epstein was an appealing, life-size bust of a child, arms outstretched, modeled after Epstein's infant granddaughter, Leda. It was to be put on sale for the benefit of British war relief...
...years after the child was born, the Stemmers sued Dr. Klein for $165,000, later upped it to $400,000. The case came up in a New Jersey Circuit Court. It was because of Dr. Klein's treatments, Mrs. Stemmer claimed, that little Jacob is a pinheaded idiot who, at the age of 5½, weighs 22 lb., cannot even sit up. At the lurid trial, two medical experts and a psychologist testified that the X-ray treatments were responsible for the child's idiocy; nine other doctors claimed they were...
...suit was brought in the names of Mrs. Stemmer and her husband, and also of little Jacob. Last week a jury awarded $15,000 to the parents for the care of the idiot boy, $35,000 to the child "for loss of Its future earning powers." The Stemmers' lawyer allowed a press agent to take publicity pictures of the delighted couple and their grinning son Jacob. The agent then peddled them around to magazines...