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Cocos Island is an uninhabited spot of jungle in the Pacific, fabled rendezvous of pirates, 500 mi. southwest of Panama. There last week paused the yacht Camargo, carrying Julius Fleischmann, yeast scion, his wife & two small children and three friends on a two-year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted...
...Fine for Fleischmann. When last year the late Gangster Dominic Tarro was arrested for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition law in Springfield, Ill., Corn Products Refining Co. and Fleischmann Co. were indicted for having conspired to furnish him with materials for liquor-making. Gangster Tarro soon died by violence. Corn products did not contest the case, was fined $5,000 recently (TIME, July 20). Last week Fleischmann Co., an integral part of Standard Brands. Inc., was fined $3,000 after pleading nolo contendere...
...TIME regarding my alleged fishing exploits. Like the report of Mark Twain's death it was somewhat exaggerated. Obviously you have confused me with the other Holmes whose name, like my nickname, is Jay and who is. as I am not, the grandson of the late Charles Fleischmann (yeast). This confusion of our two names is not unprecedented but, as you can imagine, it is annoying...
TIME deeply regrets having confused Jabish ("Jay") Holmes Jr. of Manhattan with the Jay Holmes who used to be Julius Fleischmann Holmes of Cincinnati...
...with Publisher Nast's civilized Vanity Fair and the bright New Yorker (TIME, June 16, 1930). Out of work at the time was bald, sociable, fortyish Arthur H. Samuels. He had written the first newspaper advertisement for The New Yorker five years prior, had urged Publisher Raoul H. Fleischmann to keep up the magazine during its dark early days. In 1928 he was made The New Yorker's associate editor and penny-watcher. Caught in a crossfire between Owner Fleischmann and Editor Harold Ross, he went to Europe. When he got back his job was gone...