Word: reitman
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...Chicago chapel one night last week gathered 75 frazzled vagrants for the funeral of Harry Batter, 46, professional hobo, who had died trying to stoke a fire with gasoline. To Dr. Ben Reitman, president of Chicago's Hobo College, Batter had left his money, and directions to master the ceremonies. Announced Dr. Reitman: "Everybody eat, drink, and be merry-that's what Harry ordered. Harry was a sponger . . . and no good, but he had a fine heart." Services opened with the singing of "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." Vagrants got drunk, made speeches, piously intoned the Hobo...
...colony. It is near the north side, centering around Rush Street. About 20 years ago, wealthy citizens began moving out of the old brick houses, and artists and writers began moving in. Best known arty rendezvous is the Dill Pickle Club where bushy-haired Dr. Ben L. Reitman. onetime lover of Emma Goldman, author of The Second Oldest Profession, lectures nightly on sex. The favorite artists' restaurants are the Question Mark, the K-9 Club. Schlogel's in the Loop, Ballantine's on Rush Street and the Round Table in the basement of a butcher shop...
...untarnishable halo round his head. When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly. Her fiery spirit was housed in a fiery body: in love she took her only vacations from the Cause. After Berkman came Ed Brady, Hippolyte Havel, Ben Reitman. She was very willing to take Berkman back when his prison term was over but somehow he did not want to; from then on they were just Platonic...