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...businessman was more global-minded than Sosthenes Behn, who created the world web of $760 million International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Behn stretched his communications empire from Antwerp to Osaka, steered it through 34 years of war, revolution, boom and bust, and boom again. Always somehow able to snatch cash from disaster, he had a secret: a skill at diplomacy that few foreign ministers could match, a grip on his company that only a last tycoon could keep...
...British forces were "loaded." They included Oxford's captain, Bevis T. D. Rudd, who had won the 400 meters in the Olympics at Antwerp in 1920. Their half-miler, Mountain, was the British 880 champion, while H. B. Stallard had finished only one yard behind the Olympic champion in the mile competition of the British Championships...
Home Run. In Antwerp, Belgium, surprised while looting a house, Burglar Raymond Raets fled, scrambled over a ninefoot wall, found himself inside the Antwerp prison...
...million yearly East-West trade. Muratori made a deal with Gentili to take over the party's China trade. Two months later Peking gave Gentili an order for 7,000 cases of rayon fiber, paid him off with a shipload of soybeans, which he sold in Antwerp. Later Gentili was made the sole Italian agent for China's majoif trading company, and Muratori was dispatched to Peking to operate as Gentili's contact from an office at 98 Hsi Chiao Min Hsiang...
Emil Meijer of Amsterdam, Holland, and Joseph Van Bilsen, Professor of Social Law at the College of Overseas Territories in Antwerp, Belgium, will speak on the second topic...