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...three platforms and watching at their leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of Eastman Kodak; Astronomers Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory and Clyde Fisher of Manhattan; Assistant Director Lyman James Briggs of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and Dr. Arthur Louis Day, Carnegie Institution geophysicist...
...squat Otto Langhanke was a window decorator in Quincy, Ill. Later he became a high-school German teacher and after that a chicken farmer. In 1917, he and his Portuguese wife moved to Chicago where their pretty 14-year-old daughter Lucille could take dancing and acting lessons to prepare for a career which might some day make them all comfortably rich...
...small Lucille Langhanke had ceased to exist. She had become Cinemactress Mary Astor. By 1925 she was leading lady for Douglas Fairbanks. Squat Otto Langhanke had long since retired from school-teaching and chicken-raising. He was a well-to-do Hollywood gentleman, accustomed to dressing in a cutaway. With his wife he lived in a $200,000 house equipped with a $15,000 swimming pool. Last week occurred a crucial development in the history of the Langhanke family. In Los Angeles, Otto Langhanke had given up his cutaway and was wearing what passed for rags when he asked...
...Vienna, her headquarters for 18 years, Lotte Lehmann has sung some 50 roles in German, French, Italian. In Vienna also she became Frau Otto Krause. Her husband, a tall important-looking insurance director, travels with her to the U. S., complains only of her tremendous energy. She will get up at 7 o'clock in the morning no matter how late she goes to bed. Herr Krause speaks little English but when he hears his wife's praises he taps his big chest and says impressively: "Yes. with her it is all from the heart...
...maker. More often than not they acted in harmony to keep the peace. The present head of the House of Schiff was a Kuhn, Loeb partner when he inherited his father's 13% interest. This interest is smaller than that of his uncle, Felix Warburg (18%), or of Otto Kahn (14%). But in capital contributed he stands first with $6.500,000. John Schiff also inherits the bigger share of his father's fortune, estimated at the time of his death (1931) to be $100,000.000. John Schiffs grandfather, old Jacob Henry, left an estate...