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Left. By George Ehret, German-born brewer, founder of Manhattan's old Hell Gate Brewery, maker of once famed Franziskaner: $39,801,569; $105,000 to charity, $50,000 to a sister-in-law, the rest to six children and a grandson. He died almost seven years ago, aged 92 (TIME...
...Francisco reporters, John Wade Gordon, 21, said that he was hitchhiking on a California highway, got picked up by a shiny automobile whizzing by. Occupant of the automobile was Herbert Clark Hoover, who speedily learned that Hitch-hiker Gordon, a jobless mechanic, was a relative of onetime Governor Earl Brewer of Mississippi. Said Hitch-hiker Gordon: "He bought me a meal when we got to the Sausalito Ferry, and then he said: 'Well, son, I'm going to take a chance on you. You have an honest face. I'll give you a little money...
...Milwaukee, Roger Touhy and three other members of Chicago's "Terrible Touhy" gang, were charged with the kidnapping of William Hamm Jr., St. Paul brewer. Arrested at Elkhorn, Wis. fortnight ago, they were first thought to have engineered the snatching of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, but Factor refused to identify them...
...struggle on some 7,000 wet plates that had to be developed five minutes after exposure. World War cameramen with their improved equipment remain nameless heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into The Honor of It published last year by Brewer, Warren & Putnam as a frankly pacifist tract (TIME, March 21, 1932). Though The First World War contains half a dozen prints used in The Horror of It its totality of effect is not achieved by gore or rotting human flesh. Its awfulness results from reducing death and destruction...
Married. Fred Astaire, 34, musicomedy dancer, son of an Omaha brewer; and Phyllis Livingston Baker Potter, 25, Manhattan socialite divorcee; in Brooklyn...