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Federal Judge Guy L. Fake of New Jersey has a judicial eye for art. Last year he banished from his court a female figure of Justice minus not only the necessary scales but the even more necessary heavy draperies. Last week he disapproved another work...
...director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union votes) to Mr. Martin and put Ford Motor Co. on good terms with the National Labor Relations Board. This would also relieve the pressure...
Favorite subject of many jokes which circulate surreptitiously in Germany are ersatz (substitute) materials which Nazis have developed to take the place of imported raw materials. Last week many a German enjoyed a quiet chuckle when he found in his mailbox a fake bill from an industrious gagster who "demanded" payment for a suit of clothes made of wood fabric instead of wool...
Such phrases, released by Dr. Bailey to gauge public reaction to his translation-on which he has labored for 35 years-worked like a charm. They brought prompt denunciations. Said Chicago's Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart: "A fake translation, destroying the fragrance and beauty of the Bible." Dr. John Scott, retired Northwestern Greek scholar: "A parody." Dr. William Andrew Irwin, Chicago Old Testament professor: "There is no need to vulgarize the Bible...
...nothing new for artists to fake antiques. Nor is it new for confidence men to take in wealthy suckers by posing as artists. But in France and in Lexington, Ky. last week two extraordinarily clever fakers provided two new twists...