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...dozen years after the 1922 theft, a German-born plumber named Leo Ernst, now 59, on a visit from Dayton, Ohio, to New York, went aboard a German steamship-he believes it was the Hamburg. One of the sailors told Ernst that he had some art works to sell, claimed they would be confiscated on his return to Germany, and asked $10,000 for them. Ernst offered far less, but left with the oils rolled up under...
...Sarnoff learned early to run hard. By 17, he had taught himself Morse code and snared a job pounding a telegraph key for the American Marconi Co. He first tasted fame on a night the world would remember-April 14, 1912. Sarnoff picked up a message from the British steamship Titanic. "Hit an iceberg," it read. "Sinking fast." For 72 hours, he stayed at the key, guiding rescue ships and relaying names of survivors. Thereafter, his rise at Marconi was swift. In 1919 RCA absorbed the company. Two years later, RCA Board Chairman Owen D. Young, somewhat awed by Sarnoff...
...subsidiary of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. last month opened the first section of a new city for 70,000 north of Los Angeles. Goodyear is creating a new city for occupancy by 75,000 to 100,000 residents on 13,000 acres of cotton farm it no longer needs near Phoenix. Most of these efforts involve little new technology, but G.E. already has a 60-man staff at work devising new techniques...
This collaborative childhood autobiography evokes dreamy days in a sprawling house in East Bengal, where the Goddens' father was a steamship agent, and where, as petted and pampered little memsahibs, they had syces to care for their pony, dirzees to whip them up frilly frocks, ayahs and bearers to care for them. But the sisters were perceptive little girls, and if life was mostly a carefree and sheltered idyll, there was also an awareness of spuming life outside their garden wall. They recall with remarkable clarity the sights and sounds of the bazaars, of steamer trips through the river...
Died. Roger D. Lapham, 82, businessman-politician who in the 1930s, as president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship line, won the grudging respect of Harry Bridges' West Coast dockers for his tough, fair-minded negotiations, a quality that helped him as mayor of San Francisco (1944-48), where he successfully cleaned out entrenched machine politics, but failed to secure for the city the permanent location of the U.N.; after a fall; in San Francisco...