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Although anything even approaching a comprehensive report was impossible, 10,000 people were known to be homeless; there were 172 identified dead. Heavy were the subscriptions to relief funds, bringing the estimated total to $500,000. Largest individual subscription: $20,000 from Sir Basileios (Basil) Zacharias Zaharoff of Monte Carlo, famed "Mystery Man of Europe," munitions maker, promoter of "wars...
...announced that on March 19, festival of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, he would celebrate a solemn mass of expiation, propitiation, reparation, for Russia's sacrilege, would make special appeal to Russia's ancient protectors, St. Basil, St. Nicholas, St. Cyrillus, St. Therese. He asked all Christians to join him, offered confident assurance: "Divine providence on the moment designated by it will prepare to give the necessary means to repair the moral and material ruins of those immense regions, which constitute a sixth part of the whole universe...
...archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner of his end. Footsteps, chess, English voices, higher mathematics, and the Church are used to create suspense, successfully keep your interest, and Basil Rathbone, as Vance, is pleasantly similar to William Powell, who has played the role in other pictures. Best shot: Philo Vance explaining his startling powers of deduction to dumbfounded Heath...
...Author. Men, Marriage and Me was evidently "ghosted" (in large part), but the ghost has been kept in the background by Peggy Joyce's publishers, who deny that Journalist Basil Woon...
...Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore the Great, organized the Roosevelt Line in 1920 to operate a fleet of ships to India for the Shipping Board. In 1926 he took into the company two widely known young shipping men: John M. Franklin, whose father heads International Mercantile Marine Co., and Basil Harris. The Line is now negotiating for a trans-Atlantic mail contract between Baltimore and Norfolk and Havre, Hamburg, and Bremen, which calls for five 16-knot steamships. The Roosevelt Line is thus a young man's company, and the accession of Commodore Astor emphasizes this feature. His directorship...