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Provincetown player, U. S. correspondent with Pancho Villa, Wartime pacifist (expelled from the Harvard Club of New York in 1918), appointed first Soviet Consul in New York City?appointed by Trotsky, rejected by the U. S. State Department...
...Consul-General? Year ago Alden Freeman, 69, wealthy & eccentric Florida philanthropist and globetrotter, announced that thereafter he would travel only by air. Last week he set out in a Moth biplane from Kingston, Jamaica to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to visit his good friend Lieut. Faustin E. Wirkus of the Garde D'Haiti and U. S. Marines (TIME, Jan. 26). The plane was forced down midway, floated for six hours until Globe-trotter Freeman and his pilot were picked up by a steamer...
...Miami, where he maintains two of his three U. S. residences, Mr. Freeman is known as "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti." At the Bal Boheme in Washington last year he and his party enacted in tableau the discovery of Haiti, Mr. Free man impersonating Christopher Columbus in elaborate costume and shell-rimmed spectacles. He once invited Emma Gold man, radical propagandist, to lecture on Communism in his East Orange, N. J. home but the meeting was thwarted by police. In 1918 he converted his home into a hospital for wounded soldiers, cared for 1,000 in three years. Last year...
Retired. Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, 70, British Consul General, dean of foreign consuls in Manhattan, whose term in office has been twice extended beyond the age limit (60) because of "special conditions." New Consul General is Gerald Campbell, transferred from San Francisco...
...comfort and privacy which she, too, guards vigilantly. Also at Pasadena will be Frau Einstein's friend Edna Stanton Michelson, wife of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, who is carrying on new light measurements. Mrs. Michelson is a daughter of the late Edgar Stanton, onetime U. S. Consul at St. Petersburg. She has been married to her scientist for 31 years, has three children, four grandchildren. She speaks and reads German and French, wrote magazine articles when younger. She dislikes Society, publicity, will not release her picture for publication. Her husband's friends know...