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...Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses call him a ''natural," conversational entertainer. A 200-lb. six-footer, he recently abandoned crutches, took an artificial leg. On the large grounds of his Des Moines home he has an elaborate court for croquet which he plays with intense fervor. Professionally...
Bernard Marcus, convicted president of Bank of United States (whose executive vice president, Saul Singer, last fortnight had a uniformed chauffeur deliver an oriental rug for his cell at Sing Sing) applied for transfer from Sing Sing to New York State's new wall-less, bar-less prison at Wallkill, which convicts call ''The Country Club." His application was denied because authorities feared his onetime depositors might protest. ∙ While fire swept through the second & third floors of his home near Baltimore. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald stopped rescuing furniture long enough to answer a newshawk...
...When the firing recommenced, I saw blood and knew she had been wounded. We passed three passenger busses but they took no notice of our plight, preferring to get out of range of the shots. During all this time I urged my chauffeur with cries of 'Quicker, Gjanni!' Despite his wounds he drove like mad and got us to the hospital...
...Washington one D. B. Flohr, successor to the chauffeur who quit Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins because she made him work 17 hours a day (TIME, May 15), was asked if he had any such complaint. Cried Chauffeur Flohr: "Say! You can put this down. She's the sweetest little woman in the world to work...
...liveried chauffeur in a limousine drove to Sing Sing prison and delivered a small oriental rug which was spread on the floor of a cell occupied by Saul Singer, executive vice president of the late Bank of United States (biggest U. S. bank ever to fail), serving three to six years for fenegling with the bank's funds. The same day trial began to recover assessments of $25 a share from 170 stockholders of the failed bank, and Mr. Singer faced the prospect of a temporary vacation from his soft-carpeted cell to testify...