Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Wolf Brassen said farewell to the paradise of childhood at 14, in 1909, in the southeastern edge of the Harz. Summering there, his father, his friend, his sweetheart, his would-be rival, all unconsciously matured the high-school student. Wolf's father, however, wished to keep him a child, continually worried about Wolf's getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here...
Divorced. Mrs. Kitty Lanier Lawrence Harriman; from William Averell Harriman, 37, able son of an able father, the late Edward Henry Harriman; in Paris. Graduated from Yale in 1913, Mr. Harriman was married in 1915, has two daughters, is strenuous in business and polo...
...outstanding realtor in Irwin S. Chanin, better half of Chanin Bros., though Henry I. Chanin is also able, active. Mr. Chanin was born in the U. S. of Russian parents who, however, took him back to Russia, then brought him back again, this time no more to roam. His father was a painter-plasterer in Brooklyn. Irwin also painted, plastered by day, went to Cooper Institute by night, won a prize for designing a bridge and got an engineering job in subway construction. During the War he helped build speedily erected laboratories for making poison gas, saw the advantages...
After the War he had $200. He borrowed $300 from his fiancee, $600 from friends of his father, $19,000 from Brooklyn bankers, started putting up small houses in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn suburb. His carpentering and plastering employes mostly came to work in their automobiles. Mr. Chanin arrived via bicycle. He sold his-$10,000 houses for $13,000; was off on the way to his "56 stories of sunlight...
...seized a telephone. In Los Angeles, Fred Stone soon heard his telephone bell ring. Mr. Ziegfeld wanted Dorothy, golden-haired dancing daughter of Mr. Stone, to proceed immediately to Manhattan to play the lead in Show Girl. Where was Dorothy? On Will Rogers' ranch outside Hollywood, said her father. "Call her," snapped Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that Will Rogers had no telephone in his breezy retreat. "Fly to her," pleaded Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that he had risked no flying since his nearly fatal air accident last fall. "Motor," gasped Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said he would...