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SPECTACULAR ROGUE: GASTON B. MEANS by Edwin P. Hoyt. 352 pages. Bobbs-Merrill...
Baron Munchausen was a grand character, but he was a fiction. Gaston Bullock Means, however, was for real. When he died at 59 in 1938, he was justifiably reckoned to be just about the most preposterous liar and swindler ever to smile at a sucker. In Spectacular Rogue, Author-Journalist Edwin Hoyt examines that certain smile with more journalistic competence than stylistic flair. Still, Gaston Means himself would be pleased...
Died. Jacques Villon (real name: Gaston Duchamp), 87, French painter and engraver, a Norman notary's son who as a youth took the last name of Vagabond Poet Francois Villon, with his younger brother Marcel Duchamp joined the Cubists in 1911, but won only minor notice until after World War II, when he turned to gayer colors and greater realism, becoming a favorite of U.S. museums; of uremic poisoning; in the Paris suburb, Puteaux...
...Died. Gaston Ramon, 76, French microbiologist, who followed in Louis Pasteur's footsteps at the Pasteur Institute, in 1923 developed the first safe and effective diphtheria vaccine, later produced the first antitetanus vaccine; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...unlikely philatelist, Manhattan Financier Eddy Gilbert, before he fled to Brazil in last year's E. L. Bruce scandal. And in 1892, a Parisian named Hector Giroux was so anxious to get his hands on the Hawaiian Missionary auctioned last week that he went to Fellow Collector Gaston Leroux, who had the stamp, and murdered him. When detectives finally picked him up on a hunch, Giroux confessed and surrendered the stamp...