Did the Twinkle Toes Trio read this? Why wouldn’t they feel proud to know me, feel honored that I mentioned them in this blog?
The Noble Law vs.Mattie Aikens
A Ready-Made Play
by
Jon Presco
Dedicated to Mattie Aikens and her family she fought so hard for. May they live and prosper.
“They stole my house,” Aikens said. “And I paid them to steal it.”
Taken from the transcript filed in Superior Court.
Note the sculpture on the window sill behind Lawrence Chazen, an executive of Noble Oil whose legal expertise moved Noble to Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Is Chazen a collector of……..Art? This image in the San Francisco Examiner, a newspaper founded by Hearst (the Art Collector) sets the stage for an Art Happening. There is a ‘Rosebud’ theme here, a contrast between great wealth and abject poverty. This is a Grapes of Wrath story. Walter Aikens left Columbia Mississippi with his young wife, Mattie, and headed to California. Walter was a janitor, and saved his money for a house. They had…
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