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...Born in Berlin, the only son of a banker, Architect Richard Rothschild moved with his wife to Milan, Italy, soon after Hitler came into power. When Italy ordered the expulsion of all Jews who had entered the country after 1919, Architect Rothschild tried to get permission to move to some other country. After a great deal of difficulty, he got a permit for himself & family to enter Chile, in return for which he agreed o help Chile rebuild after its earthquake (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939, et seq.). Well-to-do, he sailed from Genoa with his family and belongings last...
...Manhattan, one Otto Prignitz, 58, a scarfaced, monocled German architect, received orders to report in the Fatherland for duty as an aviation instructor. From the German Consulate he got money for his passage via Siberia. Last week he went to Harlem for one last fling before returning to the land of Aryans. When it was over he found he had lost $117. He got a policeman to arrest his party companion, a Negro lady named Miss Reno Jones. In court, the judge told Otto Prignitz he must wait, perhaps several weeks, to testify against Miss Jones. "I cannot wait that...
...Palina), invested his fortune in prime securities, and set out to view the world. The viewing lasted seven years, and when Mr. Paley finally settled down he hung his hat in the hallway of a mausoleum-like establishment in Beverly Hills, Calif., designed for him by famed Negro Architect Paul Williams. As a permanent resident of the Hollywood area, Jay Paley learned to rumba, played poker for whopping stakes with Joseph M. Schenck and other cinemoguls, took pride in having angeled two Walter Wanger cinemas (The President Vanishes, Private Worlds...
...clearing near the centre of the island, overlooking a lagoon, Nancy turned the first shovelful of ground for the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only the tower's architect and trustees, a few city officials, the News editor, Nancy Brown's grandniece and grandnephew were on hand...
Goldmark: "Rustic Wedding" Symphony (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). No symphonic architect. Composer Goldmark built pretty trellises and arbors. Conductor Barlow spruces up the most ambitious...