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...Gest, 61, veteran impresario, spectacular theatrical producer; of a heart attack following pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born Moses Gershonovich in Russia, he was shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most...
...State, others-found a new department had been added to teach them powder tricks which many an oldtime engineer wished he knew. So fast has powder metallurgy expanded in industry that shop practice has sometimes outstripped basic theory. Leading U.S. academic metal powder laboratory is directed by Gregory Jamieson Comstock at Stevens Institute of Technology...
Last week Tessie Oelrichs, the daughter of an Irish immigrant who made millions in the Comstock Lode, turned in her grave. Before she died in 1926 she knew that grand-manner Newport could not retain its grandeur. Perhaps she could imagine it slowly falling apart. Each year something happened to it - some dealer bought one of the great houses that nobody ever really lived in, some heir sold the crystal chandeliers, the grand pianos, the organs, the stained glass windows, the gold-inlaid bathtubs, the tapestry, the silver and the collections of classics that nobody read - until Newport grew more...
...Restell, almost 100 years ago. A florid midwife bedecked with velvet and plumes, Mme. Restell amassed a fortune from abortions. She used to kiss her young clients good-by with the words: "Go, and sin no more." In 1878 she was finally hunted down by Reformer Anthony Comstock, committed suicide in her bathtub...
Among the signers of this resolution were such prominent names as : President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe College; James M. Landis, dean of the Harvard Law School; Harold M. Westergaard, dean of the Graduate School of Engineering; and Professors W. Y. Elliott, Sidney B. Fay, Bruce C. Hopper, Howard Mumford Jones, S. E. Morison, Bliss Perry, and A. E. Schlesinger...