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...Their progeny reached eminence in various ways, but none more than Rebecca (1781-1869) daughter of Michael. In Philadelphia today survive charities founded by Rebecca Gratz. One of her good works was to nurse Matilda Hoffman, fiancee of Washington Irving, before Matilda died of tuberculosis at 17. Irving, grief-stricken, hurried off to Europe, where he met Sir Walter Scott and told him about Rebecca Gratz. In 1819, after Ivanhoe was published, Scott is supposed to have written: "How do you like your Rebecca? Does this Rebecca I have pictured compare well...
Surely it is a sad commentary on the supposed purpose of Harvard as an educational institution, that it can find a million for a useless and ugly chapel, but is too poverty stricken to keep open its library. Norton E. Long...
...Grief-stricken Jean Harlow had cause to wonder whether her career in cinema would be destroyed. But without Jean Harlow, work on her new film could not proceed for long. A week after Paul Bern's death, she made herself up as a "siren," went to work in Red Dust, an Indo-Chinese film...
...suite in the swank hotel George V in Paris, where his wife lay ill, Samuel Instill stared pop-eyed at a squib in The People, London weekly: "Stricken Dollar King, now living in a Paris attic on $5 a week. . . cooking his own meals . . . beginning life all over again, only at the wrong end." When comparative strangers began to telephone with offers of alms Mr. Insull, whose pensions from utility companies which he once ruled total $18,000 a year, decided to end his incognito. To newsmen he snorted: "The very idea! Cooking my own meals! Why, I could...
...trail of woe left by the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger widened last week to include the eight U. S. directors of International Match (TIME, March 21 et seq.). After months of inquiring into the financial and personal history of Matchmaker Kreuger, Oscar W. Ehrhorn, Federal referee in bankruptcy for stricken International Match, authorized Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. as trustee for the company to sue the directors for an accounting of $100,000,000 allegedly lost through their negligence. Irving Trust charged that an additional $35,000,000 was dissipated in 22 illegal dividends paid out of capital, sued...