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Jewish Max Hecksher was a prosperous clothing manufacturer in Hamburg 20 years ago. Aryan Rose Hoga was a maid in his house. When post-War inflation in Germany was about to wipe out thrifty Rose's savings, Herr Hecksher converted her marks into dollars, advised her to go to the U.S. So Rose Hoga started life afresh as a cook in Milwaukee, again saved her money...
...Manhattan court ordered pink-cheeked, white-whiskered Realtor-Philanthropist August Hecksher, 88, to continue paying plump, blonde Operasinger Frieda Hempel, 51, $15,000 a year for the rest of her life. Thus aired was an interesting domestic relationship. In 1926 Singer Hempel divorced her husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire Hecksher. Year later, she sued Millionaire Hecksher for breaking an oral contract to pay her $48,000 a year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters...
...short comings of his sonnet on the death of King George V,* England's sad, frail Poet Laureate John Masefield explained that it was written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled out with his left hand because California handshakers had disabled his right. The Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly...
...pound crew suffered one shift in the substitution at 3.3. Ganz '28 toe Maurice Hecksher '29 at the bow position. Coach C.S. Heard '25 made the replacement to lessen the poundage of the lightweight shell which had been, until yesterday, above the average allowed for 150 pound oarsmen...
Married. Gustave Maurice Heck-sher, 43, real estate broker, son of August Hecksher, capitalist; to Luella Gear Chandler, 28, onetime comedienne in Queen High, musical comedy, and onetime wife of rich Byron Chandler. Mr. Hecksher was divorced last year in Paris by Louise Vanderhoff...