Monday, Jun. 26, 1933
Names make news. Last week these names made this news:
Bernard Marcus, convicted president of Bank of United States (whose executive vice president, Saul Singer, last fortnight had a uniformed chauffeur deliver an oriental rug for his cell at Sing Sing) applied for transfer from Sing Sing to New York State's new wall-less, bar-less prison at Wallkill, which convicts call ''The Country Club." His application was denied because authorities feared his onetime depositors might protest. sb While fire swept through the second & third floors of his home near Baltimore. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald stopped rescuing furniture long enough to answer a newshawk's telephone call. Said he: "Won't you please excuse me? The house is still burning and I'm standing in three feet of water." ______sb______
In Manhattan Primo Camera, prodigious Italian fisticuffer who is scheduled to fight Jack Sharkey for the world's heavyweight championship June 29. filed a petition in bankruptcy, listing assets of $1,182 and liabilities of $59,829, including $14,390 to a London waitress named Amelia Tersini who sued him for breach of promise. ______sb______ Scheduled to address Stanford and Harvard alumni in San Francisco, Stanford Business School's Dean Jacob Hugh Jackson did not appear. Four members of his faculty arrived with apologetic explanations. Dean Jackson had been invited that evening to "bring 25 or 30 students with him to discuss international affairs and economics" at the Palo Alto home of Herbert Hoover--
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A group headed by Major Thomas G, Lanphier, onetime flying instructor and later business associate (in Bird Aircraft Corp. and T. A. T.) of Col. Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co.. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William ("Big Bill") Dwyer, by famed Racketeer Owen ("Owney") Madden, now confidently awaiting parole in Sing Sing prison, who last year ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by. Major Lanphier (TIME, June 13, 1932).
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