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...come to Winthrop in approved House drama style on April 22 and 23, when members of the House will stage "East Lynne." The piteous Lady Isabel, who compromises herself and comes to a tragic end, is played by Arthur R. Borden, Jr. '39, while the lecherous villain, Sir Francis Levison, is A. James Lehman...
Jacob Bertha Levison, 75, somewhat resembles the eminent flutist Georges Barrère in his close-cropped, courtly white beard and twinkling eyes. He too plays the flute, but this and his long patronage of music in San Francisco are matters of diversion. For 60 years Mr. Levison's business has been with disaster by land & sea. Fortnight ago he retired from the presidency to the chairmanship of San Francisco's famed Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Last week its two main subsidiaries confirmed him in the same change of office. Having thus ended 20 years...
...next few months 68 U. S. insurance companies failed and 81 were forced to suspend business outside their own States. To pay off claims against it of $529,365 required not only every cent of Fireman's Fund capital but an assessment on its stockholders. Chairman Levison likes to boast of this as the first time the company went broke and yet survived. The second time was after the Great San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906. and this time Mr. Levison played a principal part in the rescue...
...evening of April 21, 1906, Fireman's Fund, with a capital of $1,000,000 and assets of $7,000,000, owed its policyholders in the smoldering city more than $11,000,000. Then vice president in charge of the marine division, Jacob Levison proposed the formation of a new company to take over the insurance of the old, minus San Francisco losses. Each director was asked to subscribe to stock in the new corporation in a ratio of twice the amount of the par value of his former holdings. All but one agreed. Mr. Levison made their subscription...
...volume of premiums among all U. S. insurance companies. Premium income on its underwritings has risen from $12,658,000 in 1933 to $16,326,000 in 1936. Fire insurance is now its smallest field, ocean marine its largest. It writes all forms of insurance except life. Mr. Levison's successor as president of the com-pany is tall, bald Yaleman Charles R. Page. 59, who has been in Mr. Levison's old division of marine insurance ever since he left college, except for three years as a Commissioner of the U. S. Shipping Board during...