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...free course in flying from the Army Air Corps, and he has been promised the free use of a half a dozen different planes, so Leopold Ackerman 2nd '48 is looking forward to a vacation of unfettered fun when he takes off from Boston June 10 to tour the country state by state...
...booster of private flying, Ackerman plans to display the products of various aircraft manufacturers across the States and perhaps include them in technicolor movies with the many governors who have invited him in for a visit...
...While flying over vast expanses of the world as an Air Transport pilot," Ackerman says, "I had the idea that all the different peoples should be able to get closer together. There's a lot people right here in the U.S. can learn if they'll meet and understand each other...
When 20-year-old Betty Ackerman, a waitress from Menominee, Mich, arrived there Last June, she paid Mrs. Stertz $7.50 a week for a small room which she snared with two girls. Later, she was moved to a room with two other girls, had her rent hiked to $8.50. Betty kept mum until Mrs. Stertz moved her to a third room...
Count Alfred de Marigny, acquitted in 1943 of the unsolved Bahamas murder of his father-in-law, wealthy Sir Harry Oakes, turned author with a personal history: More Devil Than Saint (Bernard Ackerman; $3). Half the book concerns the murder and trial (De Marigny wants the case reopened); the other half mostly tells how he "walked in and out of the lives of many women. . . ." Sample aphorisms: "In Europe women take good manners for granted. In America they take them to bed"; "It is no effort to make American women happy." Characteristic anecdotes: how De Marigny picked up Brenda Frazier...