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...Pelham St. George Bissell of Manhattan is a 48-year-old lawyer, a graduate of Columbia College and Law School, a Park Avenue socialite, a Republican, father of seven, past commander of four war veterans' societies. As President-Justice of New York City's Municipal Courts he earns $227.69 per week. David M. Zwanziger of Queens Borough is a 37-year-old engineer, a graduate of the College of the City of New York and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, who knows five languages. For months he had earned nothing until, last August...
Last Sunday morning Investigator Rabell drove over from his home in Pelham, N. Y. to the Jones estate in Scarsdale. Dressed in white linen, the smart, baldish accountant was led into the Jones study, which was fairly crawling with microphones and dictaphones-under the desk, under the couch, in the portiéres, behind the radiators and pictures, in the radio cabinet. Upstairs two court stenographers recorded every word, and a platoon of lawyers and officials listened in. Mr. Jones was particularly pleased that SECounsel Burns was on hand...
...clergyman who declined the presidency of Harvard College in 1737, the Reverend William Cooper, was acquired this week by Harvard University from an anonymous donor. The portrait is one of the rarest and most valuable mezzotint engravings of early New England clergymen, and was made in 1743 by Peter Pelham, copied from an oil painting by John Smibert...
...book had undergone. When the Morro Castle caught fire last September off the New Jersey coast, killed 134 people and ran aground, it also wrecked the libretto of Producer Vinton Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able U. S. showmen, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, to re-do the whole job in three...
...Robert P. Heller '35, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Frederick P. Jenks '37, New York City; Nathaniel B. Kurnick '36, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; Erich W. Marchand '36, Millbrook, N. Y.; Lionel F. Miller, Jr. '37, Saranac Lake, N. Y.; Everett B. Murphy '36, Irvington, N. J.; Roger B. Martin '37, Pelham Manor...