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...name was not Pascin but Pincas. Nobody knew his first name: it was something Bulgarian roughly translated by a French passport official as Jules. Only dealers, critics and reporters ever called him Jules. He always signed his pictures pascin (with a small p). He was known as pascin (pass-kin) to his friends...
Roger Ward Babson applied to the town of Wellesley Hills, Mass, for permission to establish a private cemetery for himself & kin within the grounds of his Babson's Statistical Organization...
Ghouls with sledgehammers and crowbars chipped and battered at a fortlike mausoleum in the Moravian Cemetery, at New Dorp, Staten Island, N. Y. where lie the bones of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt & kin. But the ghouls did not get in. Police who tracked footsteps through the snow next day recalled that 53 years ago the body of John Wanamaker's department-store predecessor, Alexander Turney Stewart, was stolen from its grave...
Died. Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, 62, newspaper caricaturist who created "Abe Martin"; of heart disease; in Indianapolis, Ind. Working for the Indianapolis News since 1891, he had for the last 26 years done a daily drawing of "Abe Martin," a lanky Indiana farmer whose comments on life and current topics were homely, brief, genial. He invented other small-town characters, syndicated their sage humor in many a U. S. paper. Some Abe Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could...