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...hates nothing worse than being called a prodigy, says always: "It's not a question of how young I am." Mischa Elman played in a Lord Fauntleroy suit when he was 17. Menuhin demanded long pants this season, had them made by the tailor to the Italian Crown Prince. He demanded an automobile license, too, last spring, got it in California by taking a test on San Francisco's busy Market Street. That automobile license is his most treasured possession. It is the only thing he keeps in his pocket when he gives a recital...
Bane of the doctor is unpaid bills. In Prosperity, doctors say, patients buy luxuries instead of settling their accounts. In Depression they feel they cannot afford to pay. Like the tailor, the doctor can wait. Last week in Marceline, Mo., Dr. Ola Putman thought he had waited long enough. He added up his accounts, found patients owed him $36.000. He considered the Depression, offered to settle for two-thirds, published the offer in the Marceline 'News with a list of 75 of his debtors...
...Mexico City, burning passion for a black-eyed tailor named Sergio Silva consumed two ladies. Senoritas Sofia Mendoza and Maria de los Angeles Garcia. Early one morning a drowsy policeman beheld the two women facing each other, each with one hand to the black shawl around her shoulders, a blazing pistol in the other. As the policeman ran forward Sofia Mendoza dropped with a bullet in her breast...
Albert Einstein's sartorial negligence still drives his wife to tears. Her latest wail: Under pretense of being a guest at tea, a friendly tailor measured the professor's size by sight, made him a suit. When the tailor presented the finished suit and explained the ruse, the professor lost his temper (a rare event), chased the tailor from the Einstein's Berlin apartment, refused to wear the suit. He gives his clothes money to charity. Last week he was vacationing at Caputh near Potsdam, wearing white linen pajamas, no socks, no shoes...
Jews in general were not disappointed by George V last week. Mr. Montague Burton, by birth a Polish Jew but today London's biggest merchant tailor, became "Sir Montague." The Jewish assistant Secretary of the General Post Office, Mr. Leon Simon, became ''Sir Leon." Others who received Birthday Honors last week were...