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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner of the Heidelberg Hotel, where Huey Long used to live. One day two months ago George Heidelberg hailed a cabdriver, told him to drive to a saloon. Said he: "I'll have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg...
...ambassador, not an art director, was Agha's early ambition. A dark, widish man, son of a landowner and tobacco magnate who had kept his Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...
Agha's doctorate is a courtesy title conferred upon him in Berlin, where doctors are as common as colonels in Kentucky. A famed photographer and storyteller, he also plays chess extremely well, for a man without a beard. Outwardly he is as hard-boiled as a Hemingway hero, underneath as sentimental. Symbol of his wry self-depreciation of arts at which he excels is his poem, The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer...
...unhappy ending to a 20-year-old story was written when a 13-man military court found World War I's slickest draft-dodger, pudgy Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, guilty of wartime desertion, sent him back to his Army cell on Governor's Island in New York Bay. Vainly had Bergdoll tried to invoke the statute of limitations as a peacetime fugitive by testifying that, while everybody thought he was still in Germany, he had twice returned to U. S. jurisdiction, had twice hidden in his Philadelphia home (once for four years), since his escape...
Short, baldish, kindly Bishop Sheil last week was sworn, by a judge, as a corporation sole-a one-man holding company authorized, by act of the Illinois Legislature, to run Chicago's Catholic affairs. Appointed interim head of the archdiocese by its board of consultors, the bishop may serve six months or more, for the Vatican takes its time about filling important posts. Chicago-born, an able pitcher 33 years ago at St. Viator's College, dynamic Bishop Sheil became a diocesan official 15 years ago, has been a bishop for ten. His fame is more than local...