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Died. John Manning van Heusen, 63, inventor of the first semisoft collar; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N. Y. He patented his collar in 1913. marketed it in 1921 with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk...
For loss of memory suffered when the steel-soled slipper of a girl dancer in the Folies-Bergere flew off and struck him on the forehead, John G. Hopper, explorer, onetime mining partner of Herbert Clark Hoover in Mexico, collected $6,600. He had sued for $12,000, settled out...
Complete records of the case in which Thomas A. Edison was sued for half his fortune by an early business associate have just been received by the Business Historical Society. They were compiled and thoroughly annotated by R. W. Hale '92, son of the lawyer who defended Edison against his...
Author John Monk Saunders: "An author who has just been sued for plagiarism* is a little surprised to get a prize for originality. . . ."
Publisher Delacorte had been having trouble with Publisher Bernarr Macfadden because four months ago he brought out My Story, an unsuccessful 10^ confession magazine patterned closely after Macfadden's successful 25^ True Story. Macfadden sued. When the fight was at its hot test Publisher Delacorte heard that Publisher Macfadden was...