Word: greenbaum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Hyam Greenbaum, Musical Director of London's British Broadcasting Corporation's Television Orchestra, was acquitted at Bow Street Police Court on a charge of having stolen two books from Charing Cross bookshops. First steal: "Days of Hope'' (price 6/6); second steal: a book on Leonardo da Vinci (price 8/6). Witnesses supporting Conductor Greenbaum came near constituting a Who's Who of London's musical world...
...Fellow Conductor Sir Adrian Boult: "We musicians are all a bit absent-minded." Said BBC Television Orchestra Player Cyril Clark: "... A very absent-minded and dreamy individual." Said his wife, Sidonie Goossens, sister of Cincinnati Conductor Eugene Goossens: "He is absent-minded." Impressed by the weight of evidence, Defendant Greenbaum added his own tuppennyworth: "My friends tell me I am very absent-minded...
...heavy-jowled Jew of 64, Herbert Fleishhacker made a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills, got into banking in 1907 by marrying the daughter of Sigmund Greenbaum, president of San Francisco's London, Paris & American Bank. Simon and Alexandre Lazard, Alsatian commission merchants who started Lazard Freres in San Francisco during the gold rush, in 1884 formed the London, Paris & American Bank to handle their interests when the firm moved to New York and Paris. Young Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker...