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Nora Bayes (born Dora Goldberg), a peerless songster* had four other husbands besides Jack Norworth (No. 2): Otto Gressing (No. 1), Harry Clarke (No. 3), Arthur Gordoni (No. 4), Benjamin Lester Friedland (No. 5). She died insolvent in 1928. still lies unburied in a common receiving vault in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx...
Lord of the drifting ice pack that crushed and sank his Soviet icebreaker Chelyuskin (TIME, Feb. 26, March 12), jungle-bearded Professor Otto Schmidt has somehow kept his crew alive, fed and sheltered for two months in the - 20°F wilderness of the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, while a semicircle of rescuers hovered from Cape Van Karem, Siberia, to Alaska. Last month a rescue plane swooped onto the ice pack, loaded the Chelyuskin's ten women and two babies aboard, got back safely to Cape Wellen, Siberia. Since then the ice pack, twisted by Arctic currents...
...fellow-scientist Dr. Arthur Holly Compton on the latter's appointment, announced from London last week, as next year's visiting professor at Oxford in the chair endowed by the late Cameraman George Eastman. He found time to motor out and visit his old friend Director Otto Struve of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. With his early Cornell lectures already composed, the rest of the time he devoted to interviews, informal lectures...
...born a Jew, I am a Jew, and I shall die a Jew," Otto Kahn once exclaimed. But there was German blood in his veins, a German accent in his speech, and two Otto Kahns before the world. By day he was Otto Kahn the banker-shrewd, suave, sometimes ruthless. The last time he made news in that capacity was when he appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last summer, admitted that he had paid no income tax for three years, flayed speculation and generally won the hard hearts of hostile Senators by his charm and grace (TIME, July...
...fingers when he grew excited. At No. 52 William St. he seldom sat in his private office, preferred to work in the bustle and noise of the partners' room. When the partners next meet in that room they will have a hard time finding a man to take Otto Kahn's place-a man with the personality and power to maintain the firm's great prestige. Felix Warburg, last of the old partners, acts today mostly as an adviser. Jerome Jones Hanauer, Jacob Schiff's trusted "inside man," retired last year. Sir William Wiseman...