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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...
Like poison gas, intolerance spread through Poland. At Vilna, students were injured. Shopkeepers were beaten at Czesstochowa. The rector nipped a riot at Warsaw Polytechnic Institute by locking the gates. Rioters looted a Lwow jewelry shop, set fire to a Warsaw Jewish clubhouse. In Poznan jeering students beat up Jewish Professor Kasimierz Nowakowski. There was a fine riot in Krakow...
...that the 300 U. S. students (50% Jews) appealed to the U. S. Minister and threatened to withdraw if disorder continued. In Warsaw the antiJewish students grew excited because it was the anniversary of the death, during a riot, of Stanislaw Waclawski a Christian student at the University of Vilna. ''Revenge yourselves on the Jews!" they cried. "They were responsible for Waclawski's death!" They fell to fighting, injured 25 Jews, trampled girl students. The trepidating rector had the University closed for three days. Rigid policing alone prevented disorder. Rioting broke out also in Breslau, Cracow, Posen...
...edition of Spinoza's Ethics. Another favorite is 836, which squared gives 698,896, a palindrome (reads both ways). He likes 347 because it is a prime number, the year of Plato's death, and the telephone number of the rector of the University of Vilna [Dr. Aleksander Janusykiewicz]. He remembers that Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 because 1849 is the square...
...Vilna is still Poland...