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...sufficiently present able and mentally alert to be a successful cinemactor. He plays golf in the 703, wants to write short stories, is incorporated under his real name, Harry Lillis Crosby. His acting shoes contain one and a half-inch "lifts." His great-great-grandfather was one of John Jacob Astors sea captains. His wife, onetime Cinemactress Dixie Lee, calls him the Crooner. Says Crosby : "I'd like to be able to sing like the crooners. The reason is a crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half his natural voice. That's a great saving...
Engaged, John Jacob Astor, 21, great-great-grandson of the first John Jacob Astor, younger son of the fourth John Jacob Astor (Titanic victim) and of Madeleine Talmadge Force Astor Dick Fiermonte; and Eileen S. S. Gillespie. Manhattan debutante. Heir to $3,000,000 last August when he reached his majority, young John Jacob three weeks ago became the stepson of his onetime boxing instructor (TIME...
...JACOB WASSERMAN again demonstrates his ability as a story-teller in his latest volume of Jewish Lore. The Dark Pilgrimage (Liveright, $2.50). His account of the re-incarnation of a 17th century prophet who had betrayed his people is one that will prove fascinating, as well as instructive. Four stars for this, and it's a grand gift selection...
Married. Mrs. Madeline Force Dick, 40, widow of John Jacob Astor, divorced wife of William K. Dick; to Italian Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte, 26, onetime boxing instructor to her sons; in a Manhattan hospital, where she is recuperating from a broken...
This was more than a trial of Isidor Jacob Kresel, the sad-faced, gnomish little attorney who had been a director and general counsel of Bank of United States when it crashed three years ago. He had been tripped by the same deal which had sent to Sing Sing Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and vice president respectively of the bank. This particular deal was but an infinitesimal segment of a ring-around-a-rosy scheme to have certain affiliates pay off loans to the parent bank, involving five distinct series of transactions among six subsidiaries...