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...friends in Jewry. Not so Marcel and Armand, who turned Episcopalian, went from prep school to post-graduate society and married rich goys (who later turned out to be almost as purely Jewish as their husbands). Julius turned up with an English wife and a new name: Justin Marmaduke Gooderson. Papa Mayer and Son Pincus shook their heads but made the best of it. But when Son David-Yusel came to town disguised by his wife as the Mohammedan Prince Yusef ben Mameluke, the shock was too much for his father. Whether or not he had died laughing, he left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pincus Wins | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

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