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Richard Upjohn, a bearded, sanctimonious Briton, was a carpenter & cabinet maker with a nice appreciation of Perpendicular Gothic, who settled in New Bedford, Mass, in the late 1820's. A contractor friend one day passed his shop with a roll of drawings for a New England courthouse. Each one was labeled, "Alexander Harris, architect...
Detective Scaffa, son of a Sicilian contractor, looks and acts as if he might have been invented by Dashiell Hammett. He is tall and dark, sleek, sad-eyed, softspoken, close-mouthed and elusive. The public has heard that he lives quietly with his mother in The Bronx, takes no interest in women, has never read a detective story in his life. No one except Scaffa knows just how much stolen property he has retrieved. He puts the figure...
...Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, 46, was receptive to a good business enterprise. A 41-year-old Manhattan contractor & builder named Harold Alexander Ley had an inviting idea. The shrewd, vigorous pair conferred, organized the Life Extension Institute with $150,000 capital. Contractor Ley made himself president. Professor Fisher made himself chairman of a Hygiene Reference Board and induced some of the most important medical men of the land to serve under him without pay. Purpose of the Life Extension Institute was to give thoroughgoing medical examinations to all comers at $15 and up. Licensed doctors employed by the Life...
...sale of the property of Hudson River Navigation Corp. Forced to earn a year's maintenance in four summer months, the 100-year-old concern went under in 1932, has since been operated at a loss by court trustees. Sole bidder for its assets last week was a contractor named Harry R. Pearley, whose offer of $100,100 was promptly accepted. Newshawks soon found that the real buyer was not Mr. Pearley but a fat and fabulous man named Samuel Rosoff who was pacing about at the fringe of the crowd. Asked why he bought it, Rosoff explained...
...midst of his act in a Pittsburgh theatre, Comedian Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante pranced off the stage, ran up an aisle, stopped at the seat of Mrs. Evelyn Loether, contractor's wife. Then, according to Mrs. Loether, he "seized her in an indiscreet manner. He made an unlawful, illegal assault upon her. . . . He put his arms around her neck and forced her head against his. He kissed her left cheek, slobbered on her face." Mrs. Loether "cowered in embarrassment" and, two days later, sued for $5,000 damages. Said Comedian Durante: "Aw, it's just one of those things...