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Married. Mildred Harris Chaplin, one-time wife of Comedian Charles Chaplin; and William P. Fleckenstein, Fairibault, Minn, brewer, musical revue producer and onetime professional football teammate of Harold (''Red") Grange; in Asheville...
Olivet. Joseph H. Brewer Jr., 35, made his debut as an educator last fortnight when he became president of Olivet College (enrollment: 200) in Olivet, Mich (pop. 566). Last week he made his first presidential bow with a Founder's Day speech celebrating Olivet's 90th birthday. Son of a Grand Rapids banker, delicately dapper President Brewer took degrees a Dartmouth and Oxford, was private secretary to the late Editor John St. Lot-Strachey of the London Spectator for four years, helped found the short-lived Manhattan publishing firm of Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...later the sports did the square thing. For $200,000 in $5 & $10 bills they turned Edward Bremer, 36-year-old son of rich Brewer Adolph, loose on a side street in Rochester, Minn., 85 mi. south of St. Paul. Edward walked dizzily in circles for a while, finally made his way back to his father's house by bus, train and cab. All the way home he kept his hat down over his eyes and his coat collar up so nobody would recognize him, prematurely set up a hue-and-cry for the kidnappers who had held...
Died. August A. ("Gussie") Busch Sr., 68, famed St. Louis brewer; by his own hand (pistol), following long illness; in his palatial home at Grant's Farm outside St. Louis. Son of Founder Adolphus of the Anheuser-Busch brewery (Bndweiser), "Gussie" Busch carried the family business safely through Prohibition, continued the family tradition of liberal philanthropy. Snubbed by snobbish socialites, he and his family attained an enviable social standing without their help. For the last several months Brewer Busch had been ridden by heart trouble and gout...
HARVARD GOVERNOR DUMMER Moser, r.f. l.f., Kerr White, l.f. r.f., Badger Gray, c. c., Frank Mason, r.g. l.g., Brewer Stephenson, l.g. r.g., Bickford...