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Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. is the U. S. branch of 112-year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen...
...University of Michigan, and President Edward Bausch, 81, of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. To Septuagenarian Dr. Novy, only living U. S. bacteriologist who studied under Pasteur (1822-95), one of the few living who studied under Koch (1843-1910), prototype of benign and learned Dr. Gottlieb in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, Octogenarian Mr. Bausch, who still designs new optical devices, last week gave a newly completed microscope, 250,000th built by Bausch & Lomb during 60 years of manufacturing microscopes. Dr. Novy, however, will not use the microscope himself. Fifty years in laboratories have overstrained his eyes...
...Carnegie Hall last week, Cellist Elsa Hilger suddenly became so excited that she could scarcely get down to business, even when Conductor Leopold Stokowski appeared, commanding instant attention for the opening Handel overture. Cellist Hilger had spied the instrument being used by her desk-mate, Cellist Victor Gottlieb. It looked like the $10,000 Guarnerius which had been hers until two years ago when it was stolen from a taxicab...
...Victor Gottlieb had borrowed the cello from one S. N. Rosenthal, a Manhattan dealer who had offered to sell it for $4,000. Dealer Rosenthal had bought it for $600 from a violinist. The fiddler had paid $12 for it to a man who claimed to be a lawyer settling the affairs of a client. By the end of the week Elsa Hilger had redeemed her Guarnerius. Her claim was granted when she described a hasp on the case. She had tried to mend it with a nail when a screw dropped...
Died. Henry Gottlieb Eckstein, 75, partner in the firm making Cracker Jack (candied popcorn), coiner of their slogan, "The More You Eat the More You Want"; in Ontario, Calif...