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...Simplest way for John Doe to draw a will that will be admitted to probate is for him to call in two friends, tell them what he is doing, ask them to witness his signature to the following testament: "I give everything to my wife, Mary Doe, in the event of my death and appoint her my executrix." No such simple will was one which a Philadelphia lawyer named Solomon L. Fridenberg brought before Surrogate James A. Delehanty last week in Manhattan and asked him to interpret. Lawyer Fridenberg admitted he had drawn the seven-page closely-written document with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Athenian Will | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...summing up John Skillman's "Squash Racquets", next to the contents of the book itself, perhaps the most important item is the arrangement and method of teaching in the volume. The whole work is thoroughly outlined in the simplest fashion. It is written in a form which is easy to memorize and understand. In my experience, it is the very best book on squash racquets in the field...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

Most significant fact about U. S. Protestantism during the past twelve-month has been that U. S. pastors are now beginning to admit there is something wrong with their performance, that they fail in their simplest task, which is to get people into church. To rekindle themselves and their followers, the Federal Council of Churches sent out a "Preaching Mission" of 70 crack pulpiteers last autumn. Last week, in the wake of the Mission's Manhattan windup (TIME, Dec. 14), the Federal Council held its biennial meeting in Asbury Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council's Biennial | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...shrewdly a few years earlier. Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort of strumpets' ring-around-a-rosy popular at both music halls, would be a suitable subject for the grand staircase of a Moscow bourgeois, and that is what he sent to his patron, reduced to simplest terms of nude figures and primitive colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Tea With Sugar | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...subtitle, "Inspired by the Muse of Tchaikovsky", and makes free use of that composer's themes. It seems rather incongruous that the neo-classic Stravinsky and the romantic Tchaikovsky should be thus combined, especially since the former has written: "I always aim at straight forward expression in its simplest form. I have no use for 'working-out' in dramatic or lyric music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 10/28/1936 | See Source »

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