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...Bobby") Carmichael, North Carolina University sophomore, sportive son of Vice President William Donald Carmichael of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., had the New York Evening Graphic (tabloid) run off 200 copies of its tabloid front page bearing a photograph of himself tearing his hair (see cut} under the headline: BOB CARMICHAEL GOES MAD SEARCHING FOR XMAS CARD and over the caption: "BOBBY CARMICHAEL yesterday went crazy working on an idea for a Christmas card. His last words were: 'Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!' You see him above as he appeared in padded cell at Bellevue, to which...
Lost Tribe. With much-publicized Capt. Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett in command, the schooner Effle Morrisey picked her way carefully along the northeastern coast of Greenland between ice floes as large as Manhattan Island. She carried Harry Whitney, Philadelphia financier-naturalist,* and Junius Bird, archeologist. Mr. Bird had gone on the cold 15,000-mi. trip because he had a mystery he wanted to solve. In 1823, the British explorer, Capt. D. C. Clavering had visited a highly civilized Eskimo settlement along the eastern coast. Since Clavering, no explorer had been able to find the town again. Captain Bartlett landed...
...preparing for trial on Dec. 2. All of Prince & Whitely's partners awaited trial Dec. 26. Harold Russell Ryder, who wrecked the firm of Woody & Co. and was afterward reported living at Hotel Ambassador through courtesy of the management, was in Bay Shore with his mother. Charles Victor Bob, missing mining promoter (TIME, Oct. 27), surrendered to the District Attorney of New York, related an Odyssey of wanderings which had taken him to Phoenix, Ariz., Los Angeles, Mexico City, by train, airplane and automobile in search of the Golden Fleece of new capital. Only when it was learned (last...
...personal possessions of Mrs. Charles Victor Bob, wife of the missing Manhattan stockbroker whose financial activities may bring a loss of $12,000,000 to his investors (TIME, Oct. 27, et seq.), were sold at auction, brought $92,000. Mrs. Bob's share of the proceeds, according to lawyers, cannot be attached by Mr. Bob's creditors. Most interesting item in the sale: a volume containing steel engravings and autographs of every U. S. President. Price...
August Heckscher, rich real estate operator and charitarian,was made chairman of Rainbow Luminous Products, Inc., firm closely identified with Runaway Charles Victor Bob (TIME, Oct. 27). Among new Rainbow directors chosen last week were Gustave Maurice Heckscher, the chairman's son; Thomas F. Cole, sometimes associated with Promoter Bob in deals, once a mineral expert with U. S. Steel; Augustus Peabody Loring Jr., Boston banker. The company announced that Mr. Bob is no longer a stockholder or director in Rainbow...