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...their mother they had inherited a run-down little grocery store with $500 in debts. Creditors offered to waive their claims, but the boys insisted on paying, and within four years they did. Meanwhile a step-brother named Kaplan, onetime draftsman for Western Electric Co., had gone down to Santo Domingo where he started a company to export raw molasses to the U. S. to make industrial alcohol. He lost his first barge in a storm, but by 1919 he was handling nearly 100,000,000 gal. of molasses. That year he summoned Step-Brother Maurice Levin into the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profitless Hearn | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...problem which perplexed a Santo Domingo friar 401 years ago when called upon to baptize a pair of "Siamese'' twins perplexed Manhattan's marriage license bureau last week when called upon to authorize the union of one of a pair of '"Siamese" girls to an orchestra leader. The friar, uncertain whether his twins contained one or two souls, solved his problem by baptizing one with the regular ritual, the other with a special ritual reserved for those whose previous baptism is in doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pygopagus Marriage | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back on the table. It was the end. . . . Leucemia. Bound Brook, N. J.-Mrs. Santo Pinto, 48, mother of eleven children, died late yesterday of leucemia, after an illness of 16 months. Orange, N. J.-Mrs. Hazel Sinonair, 30, died today of leucemia. She had been ill for 20 months and in the hospital for four weeks. She was the third Orange woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leucemia | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Most of the research work will be done in Cambridge, but some will be in France, Santo Domingo, Esthonia, and Italy. The Milton Fund was established in 1924, and the Clark Fund in 1925, both to encourage research and to promote the welfare of the human race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark, Milton Awards Made For Harvard Research Men | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica of Steuben's 16 by 8 in. glass casket in which, in Santo Domingo City, repose a few handfuls of ashes that were once supposed to be Christopher Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Glass by Steuben | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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