Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sculptor Jacob Epstein made news by exhibiting in Manhattan a statue that no one could possibly object to. This Epstein was an appealing, life-size bust of a child, arms outstretched, modeled after Epstein's infant granddaughter, Leda. It was to be put on sale for the benefit of British war relief...
...years after the child was born, the Stemmers sued Dr. Klein for $165,000, later upped it to $400,000. The case came up in a New Jersey Circuit Court. It was because of Dr. Klein's treatments, Mrs. Stemmer claimed, that little Jacob is a pinheaded idiot who, at the age of 5½, weighs 22 lb., cannot even sit up. At the lurid trial, two medical experts and a psychologist testified that the X-ray treatments were responsible for the child's idiocy; nine other doctors claimed they were...
...suit was brought in the names of Mrs. Stemmer and her husband, and also of little Jacob. Last week a jury awarded $15,000 to the parents for the care of the idiot boy, $35,000 to the child "for loss of Its future earning powers." The Stemmers' lawyer allowed a press agent to take publicity pictures of the delighted couple and their grinning son Jacob. The agent then peddled them around to magazines...
...Dental School recipients are Milton Virshup 3Dn., Ashod A. Emirzian 2Dn., Frederick H. Kalil 3Dn., Terry F. Lapeza 3Dn., Walter C. Guralnick 4Dn., William M. Hoffman 4Dn., David R. Bennison 3Dn., Jacob Gordon 4Dn., and Stanley H. Norton...
...York summer resort Mr. Max Heitner, Bronx real-estate agent, once met an agreeable, balding fellow named Benjamin Tannenbaum, who said he was an accountant. They became friends. Police knew Ben as Benny the Boss, gangster aide of Louis Lepke and Jacob Gurrah, convicted dope and fur racketeers. One night last week, while Benny the Boss was sitting up with the Heitner baby and the parents were out, the mob found Benny, left him dead with two bullets in his chest. The baby slept through...