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Moody, restless and erratic, Painter Kokoschka continually complains that he can't find attractive women models who have souls. Once in the early '20s, Painter Kokcschka was so discouraged trying to find a woman he liked that he commissioned a manufacturer to make him a life-size doll, giving exact specifications as to form, color of hair, eyes, etc. When the doll arrived, Expressionist Kokoschka was so disappointed he took it out into the back yard and burned it, meanwhile fending off a squad of policemen who were convinced he was removing traces of a murder...
...Capone was served with papers in a $119,367 suit against him for unpaid taxes on illegal beer vintages of the '20s. To the marshal who served him at his walled Palm Island, Fla. estate, paretic Al pouted: "This won't make me feel very good...
...Admiral Beatty what was going on at the beginning of the Battle of Jutland. (The plane wobbled home with a broken gas pipe and the news that the Germans were heading south, but the Engadine failed to get this intelligence to the Fleet.) Throughout the early '20s U.S. Navy men agitated for first-class carriers, got two of the best when the Lexington and Saratoga were commissioned in 1927. First U.S. ship specifically designed as a carrier was the Ranger, which slid down the ways at Newport News in 1933. Almost all the regular U.S. carriers of today...
Back in the U.S. during the easy '20s, Cohen became a credit man, then developed a new angle of his own. He bought into small insurance companies, pyramided their stocks on the rising market. After the crash he bought more, paying the book value of their shares (higher than the market) on condition he be lent the money to buy out the other stockholders. By 1932 he controlled companies with assets...
Born in Leghorn, Athos Menaboni was sent to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He made his way to the U.S. as oiler on a freighter, spent several years decorating wax candles and painting posters in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In the '20s he moved to Atlanta, met and married a girl from Rome (Ga.), started painting murals. When Tobacco Millionaire Dick Reynolds hired him to decorate a mansion on Sapelo Island, Ga., Painter Menaboni did a series of murals in which some of Reynolds' best friends appeared with the bodies of jungle...