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...Zaharoff's origins-his birthplace, name, nationality-are doubtful, says Biographer Neumann. Probably he was born in Mughla, a little town in Anatolia, of Greek parents, christened Zacharias Basileos Zacharoff. He spent part of his youth in Constantinople, where he seems to have been at one time a fireman, at one time a pimp. Whether he also went to Russia for a time and married there (his alleged son, Hyman Barnett Zaharoff. is still trying to prove his paternity), Neumann leaves an open question. Less questionable is the tale of Zaharoff's absconding with 25 boxes...
...York City's Civil Service Commission, a post which Joe Ruddy has held since 1903, City Commissioner of Accounts Paul Blanshard had for several months been turning up unsavory evidence. Most recent case concerned a man named Neville who had varicose veins but wanted to be- come a fireman. He went to see a man named Lundy who took him to meet Ruddy. Neville then paid Lundy $300. After Neville was rejected by the Civil Service Commission, Lundy telegraphed him: "I tried to get your money but Joe is well strapped...
Died. Thomas Ventry ("T. V.") O'Connor, 65, longtime (1924-33) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, onetime president of the International Longshoremen's Association, onetime tugboat fireman; in Buffalo. He retired in the midst of bitter Senate charges of waste and favoritism, which included the accusation that a shipper paid a $510 tailor bill...
...berserk athlete was Outfielder Leonard ("Len") Koenecke, 31, onetime railroad fireman noted among his Brooklyn Dodger teammates for his muscular torso, his pugnacity, his inability to hold hard liquor. Last week he was given his paycheck in St. Louis, where the team was playing, told to go home to his wife and child. Disconsolate at this dismissal, he started drinking on the way, was ejected from an American Airliner at Detroit. There he hired Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and his friend Irwin Davis, a professional parachute-jumper, to fly him to Buffalo. At 10 p. m., they took...
...Brien, a policeman, Frank McHugh, a fireman, and Cagney. no occupation, are brothers watched over by an extremely Irish mother (Mary Gordon) whose brogue is so strong that, to the possible improvement of the picture, half her lines are virtually unintelligible. What entertainment the picture provides is mostly due to the antics of McHugh and Allen...