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Chicago's busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Informer | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Rented. In Los Angeles, Insurance Salesman Samuel Brummel, 56, sued his wife for half of the $10,000 fee he says she got by renting him for a year to an other woman.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Oldtime Song & Dance Man Harry Jolson (Hirsch Yoelson.) sued his brother Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) for $25,000 in back pay, earned at $150 a week, said Harry, by not using the name Jolson in the theater.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Same day Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace was publicized as second-highest-paid U.S. executive, fiery septuagenarian Spinster Zara du Pont, munitions family maverick and Bethlehem stockholder, sued him, the corporation and 17 other Bethlehem officers and directors for $1,000,000, charging wasteful expenditures of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Collegian. In Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Agnes Toczylowski, 24, sued her husband for leaving her and their two children, to play football for Louisiana State.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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