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Norwegian-born Erik Bergaust has had a bent for missiles since the age of twelve when he blew up his parents' apartment in an Oslo suburb with black powder rocket propellant. After serving in the Norwegian underground during World War II. Bergaust in 1946 became aviation editor of an Oslo newspaper. He joined Parrish's publications in 1956, quickly won a reputation for pro-Army bias and for exclusives on advanced military developments. To Publisher Parrish, Bergaust's resignation was no surprise. Said Parrish: "Mr. Bergaust went into orbit about the time of Sputnik...
Paul Gauguin ended his career on the Paris Bourse in 1883, at the age of 35. His death two decades later, in the cerulean and blood-red land and seascape of the South Pacific, was watched over by honey-colored friends. Once when a Tahitian man named Totefa respectfully told him that he "could do things which other men were incapable of doing," Gauguin rushed to his diary and wrote: "I believe Totefa is the first human being in the world who used such words toward me. It was the language of a savage or of a child...
Died. George Antheil, 58, U.S. composer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the '205, George Antheil of Trenton, N.J. became America's Bad Boy of Music (the title of his 1945 autobiography) when he wrote Ballet Mécanique "to warn the age ... of the simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce...
Gangster Arnold Rothstein's life story is the sort of straw out of which psychologists make their bricks. At the age of three, the future "Big Bankroll" of the underworld was found standing over his elder brother with a knife. Asked why, little Arnold said simply: "I hate Harry." By 14, Arnold was making money at dice and poker around Manhattan (to the horror -of his decent Jewish parents) and using it to buy the admiration of other East Side delinquents. In two years he was hiring out his money at 25% a week-"loans on Monday, payable...
...Age. Eventually Rothstein owned pieces of so many sorts of businesses-including real estate, rumrunning, narcotics, bookmaking, insurance. Wall Street bucket shops, trade unions, racing stables, bail bonds-that he was quite unable to count his money. The result was fatal. Faced for once in his life with a big gambling debt, he had doubts about his solvency and refused to pay up. Eight weeks later, on Nov. 4, 1928, he was shot in the belly in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and died two days later, after crying...