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...devotion to Germany in court and boohooed his way to acquittal when accused by Nazis of "treason to the Fatherland" was English Teacher Richard Roiderer of Cleveland, Ohio (TIME, April 22). In Munich last week opened the second Nazi trial of this kind, the defendant being Karl Nisselbeck, born in 1901 at Munich. He became a U. S. citizen in 1931, since 1934 has resided in Munich. He was championed by the local U. S. consul who, after journalists had been shooed out and the Nazi court was about to become a star chamber, insisted on remaining present...
...Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora Van Voorhis Stanton Jahncke...
...Born. To Barbara Button Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, 23, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38; their first child, a boy; in London. Weight: 7½ Ib. Name: none, until the Count & Countess "have discussed the matter more thoroughly...
Developer of liquid fuel is Robert Hutchings Goddard, rangy, bald, 53, foremost U. S. rocketeer. Born in Worcester, Mass., where he became professor of physics at Clark University, Goddard started puttering with rockets in 1907. The Smithsonian Institution gave him $12,000 over a period of twelve years. When one of his contraptions blew up over Worcester, the terrified townsfolk forced him to desist. He moved to Camp Devens, later to the desert near Roswell, N. Mex. Since 1930 his expenses have been paid by the Guggenheims...
Hearn was one of the most romantic figures of English letters during the last century. Born of an Irish father and a Greek mother on a small Grocian Island in 1850, he came to America at nineteen. Here he worked as a reporter in New York, Cinebmail, New Orleans, and the West Indies...