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...Paul, Minn., where William Hamm Jr. was successfully abducted last June, Edward G. Bremer. 36, was whisked out of sight last week. Since he is a son of Adolf Bremer, majority stockholder in famed Jacob Schmidt Brewing Co. and personal friend of President Roosevelt, his kidnappers figured his release was worth $200,000. While aged Mr. Bremer pleaded frantically with Federal and State authorities to keep out of the case, he got no word from an advertisement inserted at kidnappers' instructions in a Minneapolis paper: "We are ready. Alice...
Even an extraordinary newshawk, obliged to send a story a day from the Antarctic, must resort to much journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
...landing-gear, for a reconnaissance flight. In the take-off the wind whipped the skis back until they hung vertically from beneath the plane. Someone had forgotten to attach restraining wires from the toes of the skis to the wing struts. Pilot June was told by radio from the Jacob Ruppert what was wrong. Co-Pilot B. M. Bowlin crawled out on the wing, lost his cap and a glove in the icy blast, saw that the skis indeed were dangling, that nothing could be done about...
...only legally indisputable fact about the lawsuit which came before a New York Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn last week was that Betty Beuschel, onetime Long Island chambermaid, had a 2-year-old son. Miss Beuschel claimed that one Jacob Manowitz, Long Island real estate dealer, fathered her child, asked damages. He denied the charge and invoked the Landsteiner blood test to establish his disclaimer...
John Bamber Hickam '36, of Galveston, Texas, has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship, one of the leading undergraduate honors at the University, it was announced yesterday. Hickam prepared at the Western High School in Washington, D. C., but his home is at Fort Crockett, in Galveston where his father is an officer in the United States Air Corps. He ended his Freshman year in the highest group of the rank list, and is now specializing in Bio-Chemical Sciences in preparation for the study of medicine after graduation...