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...paid woman lawyer in the world." Since most women attorneys receive trifling fees, this distinction was negligible, although Lawyer Holtzmann's clients included Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard. She began her legal career as a schoolgirl, doing chores about the office of her older brother, Lawyer Jacob L. Holtzmann, studied law at Fordham, opened an office of her own half an hour after being admitted to the bar in 1922. She has been ready for the plaintiff ever since. She has additional offices in Hollywood and London. Most of her friends as well as her clients...
...JACOB FOGELSON...
...John Jacob Astor III & wife got as far as Seattle on their month's honeymoon in the Pacific Northwest, secluded themselves in a hotel for two days, hitched their private car to an Eastbound express sped back to New York. Explained young Mr Astor, surrounded by 46 detectives: "We couldn't afford the car any longer...
Married. John Jacob Astor 3rd, 21, son of Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte; and Ellen Tuck French, 18, daughter of Boston Insurance Agent Francis Ormond French and Mrs. Livingston French of Manhattan: in Newport, R. I. Notably present were Mrs. Fiermonte, Mr. William K. Dick, her second husband. Nazi Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. Clara Smith, Negro matron of the Newport Casino. Notably absent were Mr. Astor's halfbrother. Vincent Astor; his onetime Fiancee Eileen Gillespie; his stepfather. Prizefighter Fiermonte...
...referee stepped in front of him, raised Baer's hand in victory. Max Baer was born in Omaha in 1909. His 6-ft. father was a Jew of Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated...