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Died. Colonel Milton B. Ochs, 91, vice president of the Chattanooga Times Printing Company, and the last of a trio of newspaper-publishing brothers (others: Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times, George W. Ochs of the Philadelphia Public Ledger); in Chattanooga...
...above Seventh Avenue, surrounded by button boxes, swatches of material, scrapbooks and half-finished dresses. She has an artist's sense of color and a sculptor's feeling for form; wherever she goes, she keeps both eyes peeled for new ideas. "With these dames," says her partner, Adolph Klein, "you don't know where they get their inspiration. It may be from the crack in the wall." With Claire, most of the inspiration comes from the fabrics that salesmen are forever trying...
...Carnegie carriage trade, and in 1940, after a year and a half, Designer McCardell quit by mutual agreement. Then, after turning out some potboiler designs for a small manufacturer, she heard from Geiss again. He had recovered his health and his nerve, and found a new partner in Adolph I. Klein, a suave, confident ex-salesman who never seems perturbed by the risks of the business. Geiss and Klein needed a designer, and asked Claire's most recent boss how she had done. Said he: "If I were you, I'd go shoot craps with the money...
Freshman coach Adolph W. Samborski has few worries about his offensive and defensive departments, but admits "I'd like to see the pitching come along better." Although in two games this year, the Yardlings have scored 24 runs to the opposition's 12, they lost to the New Hampshire freshmen in the opening game because of poor pitching...
...most men. It took two husky hospital attendants to handle him when they decided to get him under control. He got a chestful of broken ribs during the mauling, but he recovered quickly enough. He was used to beatings. It was a long series of beatings that had put Adolph ("Ad") Wolgast into the psychopathic ward of California's Stockton State Hospital in the first place. For eleven years the "Michigan Wildcat" had held his own in the savage battles of the pre-World War I prize ring. He had slugged and butted and cuffed...