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John Maitland Brewer Churchill, Jr. '47 replaces Philip M. Stern '47 as President as the result of elections held Sunday evening. Stern, who will graduate on June 28, has held the position since February 9 of this year. Churchill, absent from the College this term, served for a short time after his election to the Network in August 1943 as Business Manager, and has been Technical Director since July...
...Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, 60, Bavarian brewer's son, longtime Luftwaffe commander, who helped stage the aerial massacre of Rotterdam and blitz on Britain...
...Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, 38, second son of the late (ninth) Duke of Devonshire, husband of famed, U.S.-born onetime dancer Adele Astaire; after long illness; in his hereditary Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland. The tall, high-domed, horse-fancying Eton & Cambridge-man met the musicomedy star (an Omaha brewer's daughter) in the late '20s, married her at his family's rural, palatial "Chatsworth" (Derbyshire) in 1932, soon established her in their cliff-topping Irish pile, complete with salmon stream, 200 rooms and (she said) one bath. Their daughter (1933) and twin sons (1937) lived only...
Roseland was started by a Philadelphia accountant named Louis Brecker, who had a passion for dancing and a simple ambition to make a million dollars. His partner was a Pottsville, Pa. brewer named Frank D. Yuengling. Brecker had decided that the public wanted cheap but respectable dance halls. Brecker's first Roseland, in Philadelphia, repaid his investment in six months...
...boys at Brewer's would rather talk about the 1939 election in which Jack Evans, a salt-&-peppery veteran of 25 years in Westerns, beat out Rube Dalroy, a full-bearded, booted ex-circus clown and rider with Buffalo Bill, for the whimsical honor of being Mayor of Gower Gulch. The campaign was promoted by Brewer's so that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark...