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...going to get sodden drunk so Mother will know how it looks and will stop her drinking," said Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, schoolboy son of the famed stock market trader, when he returned to his mother's home at Montecito, Calif., late Thanksgiving evening. In the big pink stucco house Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, who divorced Trader Livermore in 1932, was giving a drinking party. Son Jesse began downing a quart of whiskey. Screamed tipsy Mrs. Livermore: "I'd rather see you dead than drinking!" Son Jesse lurched into another room, returned with one of the guns...
...Lauriston Ward '03--to be Lecturer on Anthropology for the first half...
Harriet Metz Noble Livermore summoned Manhattan police to her Park Avenue apartment at midnight, informed them that her husband, famed Wall Street Speculator Jesse Lauriston Livermore, had been missing since midafternoon. He had started on a walk after luncheon, failed to telephone her hourly as was his custom, missed a dinner engagement. While newspapers headlined "kidnap,"' police and Federal agents scoured the city. A taxicab driver who took Mr. Livermore to his office said he had become "terribly sick" in the cab. Day after his disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar...
Married. Jesse Lauriston Livermore, 55, famed stock speculator; and Harriet Metz Noble, 38, concert singer, Omaha brewer's daughter; each for the third time; in Geneva...
Benjamin Block, broker to Wall Street market makers for nearly 20 years, retired from his Stock Exchange firm last week. His best customers were Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed bear operator, and William Crapo Durant, oldtime head of General Motors and leader of many a potent pool in the Coolidge bull market. Broker Block would often take huge selling orders from Bear Livermore over one telephone while Bull Durant was on another wire to place huge buying orders. To customers he thought were wrong he would snort: "You're throwing your money away"?and take the order...