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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facts: Born Gerguson in 1890 in Vilna. Russia. Arrived with parents in U. S. in 1896. Longtime problem child of Manhattan charitable institutions. Bobbed up, his War years a blank, among the newly adrift Russian princes in Western Europe. Gulled Americans in Paris, Manhattan, Newport, Harvard, Hollywood (twice), St. Paul, Phoenix, variously as the late Tsar's brother, cousin, halfbrother, finally (in Mexico) the Tsar himself. Lived with and peacefully served Artist Rockwell Kent at Ausable Forks, N. Y. As drifts of bad checks massed behind him, he smelled out new green pastures. Exposed, he was always super-Romanoff...
...walked down the gangplank behind actress Marilyn Miller (herself an inadvertent stowaway last month on the S. S. Bremen with her new fiance, Film Actor Don Al-varado). To officials who asked for his ticket, he said he said: "My ticket? I've been asked for it twice and given it up once...
...George, 3. printed on Christmas Seals brought the National Tuberculosis Association about $3.500,000 this year. The Christmas Seal sale last year totaled $4,532,005.18. The difference means the curtailment of many anti-tuberculosis activities. But one aim will not be scanted: attack on the problem of why twice as many young women as young men between the ages of 15 and 24 die from tuberculosis...
...Personalista is a man once called "the most popular man in Argentina," grizzled old Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen who was twice President (1916-22 and 1928-30), being overthrown in the middle of his second term by a military coup d'etat (TIME, Sept. 15, 1930). Between Dr. Irigoyen's first and second terms Argentina's President was his loyal henchman. Dr. Marcello T. de Alvear. Last week the Justo Government seized Dr. Irigoyen and Dr. de Alvear before anything was proved against them, rushed them aboard the despatch boat Golondrina and instructed it to make for Martin...
There is an old Wall Street saw that you cannot mix horses and stocks, but Benjamin Block's first horse was a great horse. Kentucky Derby-winner Morvich. Morvich was beaten in his 13th start? and never won another race. Twice a year Broker Block journeys to Elizabeth Pinkney Daingerfield's famed farm near Lexington. Ky. to spend a few hours with Morvich, his brood mares and his colts. "Some day," he says, "I'll have another Derby winner by Morvich. That's a prediction...