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The droit de suite occasionally rights wrongs. In 1926 The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau, who died in poverty, fetched 420,000 francs ($16,800) at a Paris auction. Rousseau's sister, a Mme Bernard, sued the original owner, M. Eichenberger, for her 3% ($504) which he refused to...
Sonora. Not only Gillette's directors were defending their direction last week. A group of eight onetime directors of Sonora Products Corp. of America found themselves being sued for "a corrupt and unlawful agreement and conspiracy." No small matter was the suit; $1,500,000 is at stake. And...
Sympathetically, curiously has Memphis, Tenn., watched the affairs of Dean Israel Harding Noe of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, whose wife sued him for di-vorce last February because he believes that "the only Christian standard of birth control is self control" (TIME, May n). Last week Memphis was given...
Once before, in 1929, Photographer Hillig tried to go home in a blaze of glory and bought passage on the Graf Zeppelin. But somebody blundered and at the last moment Mr. Hillig found himself left out. He made quite a fuss about it, sought a writ to prevent the Graf...
In Washington Mrs. Rita Nickel sued a department store for $50,000 because a male employe opened the door of a closet in which she was trying on a dress.