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When Frank Dan died last month, he left his estate to his widow with the proviso that Audrey Bridget and Frank Dan Jr., "the good son," inherit it later. Thereupon Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last...
...Federal aid for schools as naturally as businessmen favor more and better business. Hence, they were well pleased with the recent report of Franklin Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Education. That committee, to overcome the long-standing objection of Catholics to Federal aid, incorporated in its recommendations a proviso that Federal money be also made available for the education of children in parochial schools (TIME, Mar. 7). To Protestant educators, who hate and fear Catholic influence in education, that recommendation last week was like a red flag...
...much simpler cure was suggested last week for a much noisier head noise under observation at Hines Hospital, run by the U. S. Veterans Administration in Proviso Township, near Chicago. Charles Hester had complained of a ticking in his head, and doctors could actually hear the ticking by cupping their ears a few inches away. It had bothered him intermittently ever since a shell exploded near him in the War. Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal...
...Szatkus'] possessions. . . . Next week we expect to apply for an injunction that will tie up all of Miss West's property in California." That his client's share-Mae-West's-wealth movement might be halted by California's community property law proviso that a separated wife's earnings are her own was poohed by Mr. Szatkus' Los Angeles lawyer who said the clause was discriminatory sex legislation and might be found unconstitutional...
Significant in the agreement signed last week by Messrs. Hart & Clapp and Faiz Mohammed Khan was a proviso that the concession company must be entirely American. U. S. engineers have been well regarded in the East ever since they helped complete Iraq Petroleum's 1,200 mi. pipe line across Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean in 1935. More important than that, and perhaps most important for the concession to Seaboard, is the fact that Afghans are still skittish about British interference. European-minded King Amanullah was chased out in 1929 partly because he tried to force pants...