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Died. Goldie Balaban Levin, 67, mother of Chicago's seven Balaban brothers (President Barney of Paramount Pictures Inc., Harry, Elmer, John, David, A. J. and the late Max), who rented their first motion picture theatre with her $500 capital, built up the $20,000,000 Balaban & Katz chain; after brief illness; in Miami...
...burly head of Bernard Francis ("Barney") Dickmann, the enterprising bachelor realtor who is St. Louis' mayor until at least April 6 (municipal election day), last week literally was in a smoky fog, and had been there for many winter weeks. The murk over St. Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier...
...Civil War he and his son, the late great Col. Washington A. Roebling, built a factory in Trenton to make their own steel cables for that miraculous structure. Col. Roebling finished it. In 1933 Mary Gindhart, a customer's consultant in the Philadelphia office of C. D. Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. in Trenton. Siegfried Roebling died a year ago, leaving his wife among other things a large stock interest in Trenton Trust Co. No stranger to authority, Madam President Roebling...
...player or yachtsman. Nonetheless, the sports experts whose poll decides the Sullivan award have come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners for the neglect with which they are usually treated. The Sullivan award was inaugurated by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1930. Decathloner Barney Berlinger won it in 1931. Decathloner Jim Bausch won it in 1932. This "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish, then?" year, voting for the Sullivan award was closer than usual. Early returns made it look as if it would go to famed Jesse Owens, the triple Olympic champion Negro...
...Fresno, Calif., known as the Morrow Group, sued for 50% on the ground that they helped Ochsner assemble the claims. Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%. An Ochsner wildcatting promotion called Medallion Oil Co., which lost $100,000 for number of Wall Streeters including Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch, sued not only for the royalties but the entire lease, pipe, well and derrick...