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...closed, least of all its employes. Finally on complaint of some annoyed customers who wanted their money, French officials closed it tighter than ever by sealing the vaults. Apparently the only person who could solve the mystery was the bank's founder, principal owner and undisputed boss, Bertrand Coles Neidecker, a U. S. citizen...
...Brooklyn realtor, Bertrand Coles Neidecker sold bonds, went to France in 1916, joined the Lafayette Escadrille, won several decorations. After the War, he remained in Europe, setting himself up as a money changer to U. S. troops in the Allied occupation of the Rhineland. His Paris bank, a logical sequel, was started in 1921, catered to itinerant U. S. citizens and French aristocrats...
...Bertrand Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta was chief pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight. According to legend, Byrd had to hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher when he got out of hand during the flight. Drink had by that time made him a "physical wreck," according to no less an authority than Anthony H. G. ("Tony") Fokker. Acosta's reply was that "Tony Fokker can go to hell...
Divorced- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 62, mathematician, philosopher, writer; by Countess Dora Russell; in London. Grounds: adultery (TIME...
...unwavering in strict loyalty to itself." Katherine Mansfield, "a charming, pathetic figure," had a talent that was "not . . . robust . . . and it was overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that a man may know everything and understand nothing would be meaningless to him." To D. H. Lawrence, "a sort of latter-day Carlyle rather than a latter-day Blake," he doffs his hat: "Let there be no mistake, however...