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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name Epstein is famed among artists: 1) Because Sculptor Jacob Epstein of London has carved things to which most Londoners violently object (TIME, Oct. 21). 2) Because Max Epstein of Chicago, besides being philanthropist and financier (tank cars, directorships), is an outstanding connoisseur and collector of paintings. Many a Harvard law student is aided by the Max Epstein Loan Fund. The University of Chicago has a Max Epstein Dispensary and Social Hall. Lately Mr. Epstein combined his hobby and his philanthropy. Last fortnight the University of Chicago announced receipt from him of $1,000,000 for an art center where...
...cent breakfast of coffee and rolls, and quietly slipped one into my pocket for lunch. I remembered the summer underwear and low shoes that I wore during that cold winter of 1907 ... the past when the Kraft Company was small and everybody called everybody else by his first name-even the stenographers...
...however true were these predictions, there have happened since 1925 events that even visionary President Kraft could not have foreseen. In 1928 Kraft Cheese Co. acquired Phenix Cheese Corp., changed its name to Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., became dominant in the U. S. More companies have been added constantly. Late this summer it became known that control of Kraft-Phenix had passed to Selected Industries, Inc., and affiliated investment groups. But bigger than any of these developments was an announcement last week that Kraft-Phenix would be a unit in a new food company sponsored by the National City Bank...
...turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the 'Countess Something.' " With him was his wife who told him that the name of the book was The Strange Countess...
Maurice Tessier, French novelist (The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), who has written the "best seller" in France for five successive years, and whose pen name is Maurice Dekobra, had his name changed to Maurice Tessier Dekobra...