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...Gene Bertram Krupa, 32, is one of the Chicago boys who practiced jazz in the 19205, and one of the few who turned it to commercial success. His father, a Chicago alderman, sent him to a Catholic college to study for the priesthood, but within two years Gene Krupa was beating it out in Midwestern bands. He rode to fame with Benny Goodman's orchestra, battering frenetically and taking elaborate syncopated cadenzas. He devised three facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like...
Last week, as he issued his constitutional decree from the Raja's palace in Kuching, Sarawak's capital, Sir Charles made up his mind. Said he: "I hereby pronounce my brother, Bertram Brooke, at present the Tuan Muda, to be my heir...
...these complications undermined the Raja's prestige in Sarawak. Two years ago Sir Charles, looking about for a suitable heir to the throne, decided his brother, Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke (now 64), was too old. Besides, Bertram's wife had also got her name in the papers by embracing Mohammedanism after being successively a Protestant, Christian Scientist, Roman Catholic. So Sir Charles appointed Bertram's son, Antoni Walter Dayrell Brooke, to be Sarawak's Tuan Muda. Then he sailed for England...
Newshawks (whom he hated) and col leagues last week recalled some episodes of Sir Frederick's turbulent career. He was a stubborn man of strong feelings, sudden temper, trenchant speech. After insulin was discovered in 1921, Biochemist James Bertram Collip was called in to polish up the glandular extraction technique. The stuff began to be called "Collip's extract." Banting leaped on Collip in the university halls, threw him down, banged his head on the floor, bellowed: "So, you will call this 'Collip's extract,' will...
...Germany, Adolf Cardinal Bertram, Archbishop of Breslau and dean of the German hierarchy, formally protested to Hitler because the Nazis ruled that services could not be held anywhere in Germany before 10 a.m. after nights with British air raids-a rule which keeps many German Catholics from attending mass. > Baptists in the 'Baltic area of the U. S. S. R. (until last year Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) were bravely enduring new active persecution by the Soviet Government...