Lester Rosenfeld wants to be Lester Field. Mr. Rosenfeld, or Field, an artist living at 211 Central Park West, has applied to the Supreme Court for permission to change his name because he is “desirous of abandoning a name which betrays a Germanic family origin entirely opposed to his sympathies and convictions,” his petition reveals. He feels a Germanic name “an obstacle to the advantageous disposition of his works and to his position as an artist.”
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