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...richest family in the country, one of the richest in the world. Otto Bemberg came from Germany in 1868. His son, Otto Sebastian, made big money in brewing, banking and real estate. Retiring to Paris, he directed his ever-growing Argentine affairs from an inconspicuous office on Boulevard St. Germain. When he died in Monte Carlo at 75, he left four sons to increase the family fortune. Two of them, Otto and Federico, stuck to the job. Argentine society boasts of its rock-bound exclusiveness, but the Bembergs married aristocratically. Accepted in Buenos Aires by the snooty Jockey Club...
...Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry and Perseverance bring a sure Reward...
...readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season. There were as many ways to break rent ceilings as there are stucco villas on Biscayne Boulevard...
...Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' house gutted, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's house gone. Gone was the British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
...week) without wanting to play in any. His passion is Shakespeare (to understand the peculiar relationship of Othello and Iago, Carradine at first alternated in both roles); he got his first movie job because Cecil B. De Mille heard him spouting Hamlet as he tramped Hollywood Boulevard looking for work. For his present nationwide venture, Carradine sold his yacht and mortgaged his house. He is his own producer, director and sole owner as well as star. Says he: "That's the only way to do Shakespeare, for good or evil, so that it hangs together. If this goes over...