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...Perelman like many another fledgling writer headed posthaste for Montparnasse. A redoubtable tosspot and coxcomb, he was celebrated throughout the Quarter for drinking Modigliani under the table; his fondness for this potent Italian apéritif still remains unabated. In 1925, disguised as Ashton-Wolfe of the Sûreté, he took to frequenting the milieu, the sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai...
CAPTAIN EWARD MACAULEY U.S.N. (Ret...
Died. Major General William Crozier (ret.), 87, longtime chief of Army Ordnance (1901-18); in Washington. Made chief of Army Ordnance by Roosevelt I, he helped design the Buffington-Crozier disappearing gun carriage of the U.S. coast defense's-heavy artillery...
Died. Lieut. Colonel (ret.) Charles Robert Morris, 67, deviser of the pellets-in-a-fishbowl process of drawing the first draft numbers; in Lebanon, N.J. He blindfolded Pellet-Picker Newton D. Baker in the first drawing of World War I, blindfolded Henry L. Stimson in World War II. History-minded, he used the same blindfold in both drawings...
Other appointments to the staff, as made by Faculty adviser Commander Stanley L. Wilson, U.S.N., ret., were Thackeray P. Spencer '44, as Assistant Editor; Grover C. Hansen '44, as Business Manager; James W. Wolf '44 as Photographic Editor; and Jack H. James '43, as Aviation Editor, a newly-created post...