Tycoon Brown

Last week a U. S. attorney gave an account of a business call he and a representative of the Post Office made in April:

They went to the offices of Mills Research Corp., No. 276 Fifth Ave., and asked to see its president, Maxwell H. Brown. Told that Mr. Brown was out they made an appointment to see him. Returning later, they were ushered into the office of a dignified, white-haired executive. Straightway they fell to questioning him, accused him of operating a chain-selling racket, collecting $2,000 a day from deluded women who sent in $1 for six pairs of silk stockings. Untycoonlike confusion came over the venerable businessman. He stammered as if with stage fright, finally broke down, confessed he was not Maxwell H. Brown but Theodore C. Packard, 65, unemployed actor. He said he had accepted an offer of $250 to play the part of a big businessman for half an hour. Said he:

"Just now for $250 I'd be President of the United States."

Last week indigent Actor Packard was indicted along with Solomon Sugarman (disbarred attorney), George Gopin (once convicted of impersonating a Prohibition agent). Paul Rosen, Ruben Hirsch, Irving Cohen et al. No indictment was returned against Maxwell H. Brown. He had never existed. His name had been signed to letters by an 18-year-old office boy.

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