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...last fortnight (TIME, July 4). Fox Film Corp, last week sued to recover possibly $10,000,000 from Filman Fox, Jack G. Leo, a former vice president, and partners in M. J. ("Mike") Meehan's brokerage house, which handled many a Fox pool. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Aaron Fox, came forward too, with a $250,000 suit in behalf of her children...
...founder $500,000 annually until 1935 for his "advisory" services, and to recover what it has already paid him. Demanding an accounting of his alleged secret profits from stock manipulations with an eye to recouping in full, it wants specifically $2,375,000. Mrs. Aaron Fox charged that Brother William "zealously guarded the name Fox as his own trade mark," willingly paid members of the family to refrain from capitalizing on it because, even when he "was obliged to retire," he expected to re-enter the film business and "continue to enjoy, for his sole benefit, the monopoly and prestige...
...Winthrop Sargent Prize of $150, for the best work relating to Shakspere, goes to John M. Pratt 5G of Pittsburgh, for an essay entitled "Aaron Hill, Disciple and Defender of Shakespere...
...Naumberg Art Collection was given to the Museum in 1930 by the late Mrs. Aaron Naumberg of New York, and includes a rare collection of paintings and other works of art, together with the panelled room which housed the collection in the owner's residence. Rembrandt's famous "Portrait of an Old Man" is among the group, which includes well-known works of Franz Halls, Bartolome Murillo, Lorenzo Di Credi El Greco, and others. The Naumberg gift included the sum of $125,000, which is to be used for the installation and maintenance of the collection...
...Died. Aaron Zimbalist, 66, father of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, onetime oprra conductor in Russia; of heart disease; in Astoria, L. I. last fortnight. Because Violinist Zimbalist was on tour at the time, preparing to play in Manhattan last week, the news was withheld until after the concert...