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Stephenam Victor Joseph Noel Otto alias Otto Debeney, 29, jokester, took his own life in his native city of Brussels, last week, by leaping from the third story window of a dingy lodging house. Gallant and daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army, he appeared in Coblenz dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before...
Schmeling. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling would be a long name to in scribe on the Tunney-Muldoon trophy which indicates the championship of the world. But Herr Schmeling, who is as soft-spoken as Tunney and as agreeable as Carpentier, would not object to his three middle names being left out. He it was about whom the long, loud, prefight ballyhoo was mostly centred last week, for he it is who is dempseyesque...
...Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Super-educated is Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, schooled at Harrow and Cambridge, son of famed Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan, grandnephew of Lord (Horatius at the Bridge) Macaulay, brother of Historian George Macaulay Trevelyan...
SARAH ORNE JEWETT-Francis Otto Matthiessen - H ought on Mifflin...
Playwright Finsterwald is in her early twenties, a native Detroiter. Last year she was graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where, studying dramatics, she won an Otto Hermann Kahn prize for a four-act play called Giants and Chains...