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...ambitions himself-a figure much like that jolly, bicycle-riding Oslo shopkeeper, Wilhelm Henie. When, as a professional skater in Happy Landing, Sonja fell in love with her manager, sophisticated cinemaddicts reminded each other of her long-faithful swain, Paris Sports Promoter Jefferson Davis ("The Tex Rickard of Europe") Dickson...
...second greatest worry in Sonja Henie's life, according to other people is her unmarried state. Her friends contend that her most publicized "romance," with Tyrone Power, was just that. Her less publicized friendship for Jeff Dickson* ended when she left Europe for the U. S. in 1936. She gave him back his jewelry. Her parents regarded with approval middle-aged Clifford Jeapes (pronounced Geeps), British cinemagnate who gave Sonja her first (unsuccessful) screen test. Romantic friends incline to the belief that the only man Sonja Henie has ever really been interested in was Jack Dunn, the handsome...
Married. Jefferson Davis Dickson, 43, Natchez, Miss, farm boy who became Europe's No. 1 sports promoter, built, owns and operates the Palais des Sports in Paris; and Louise Wedell Mastbaum, 29, Philadelphia heiress; in Greenwich, Conn. For years Dickson was a devoted swain of Skater Sonja Henie...
...PROBLEM OF THE GREEN CAPSULE-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A man is poisoned in the presence of three witnesses, none of whom can tell what happened. But ingenious Dr. Fell catches the culprit. Intricate and astute...
With this quotation from George Crabbe, Economist Dickson H. Leavens prefaces a chapter of "summary and conclusions" in Silver Money, a comprehensive book published last week.* A white-fringed Yaleman of 52, Author Leavens first got interested in silver when he was teaching in Changsha, China, found that his paycheck fluctuated constantly. Today an acknowledged authority, he is employed by the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, a Colorado Springs nonprofit organization set up in 1932 by Alfred Cowles...