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...formed at the accident scene and flowed like quicksilver into the surrounding streets. Three hours later, Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, a visiting Hasidic scholar from Australia, was stabbed to death by a group of marauding black youths intent on avenging Cato's death. A 16-year-old was charged with the murder...
...third occasion she had overheard one of her bosses talking about "the $1,000 for Yankel." That, she explained, was their nickname for Andrew Jackson May. (Added a committee counsel: "Yiddish for Little Jack. . . . It means he is not too smart.") Said Eleanor Hall succinctly: "a bunch of crooks." Pretty, red-haired Jean Bates, a coworker, agreed...
Lord Beaverbrook's moneymaking, stunt-loving London Daily Express was not so generous, Rabbi Yankel Vallach of Lodz not so greedy, as TIME (People. Feb. 25) would have them. If Rabbi Vallach told the Express all he knew about his brother, Soviet Commissar Litvinoff, for 100 zloties, he received a mere $19 and not $1,900-a sum which would have made the good rabbi an exceedingly rich man among his people in Lodz...
...grubby street in Lodz, Poland, Lord Beaverbrook's stunt-loving London Daily Express tracked down a grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping...
...Gregor, O. L. M. H. Lyding '09 Ussishokof, J. A. Eccles '10 Orlinski, M. Adelsheim '09 Schamberg, A. Gregg '11 Von Schlegel, C. H. Pullen '11 Wolfstamm, S. Perritt '10 Liefert, F. A. Wilmot '10 Bernstein, D. Carb '09 Petroff, J. C. Savery '11 Winggte, E. A. Bemis '11 Yankel, G. D. Marti '12 Chayim, H. G. Eisenstadt '12 Naitkin, D. Haar '11 Levenson, W. J. Bloom '11 Kafer, W. White '10 Bergman, E. M. Ach '11 Becker, M. L. Friedman '10 Lichtman, G. R. Bunker '10 Rothstatt, R. E. Rogers '09 Schieffert, W. C. Greene '11 Montfeld...