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...that they were comedians. Through all of these performances the thing that I remember distinctly is the extreme nervousness and stage fright of Fredric Bickel. Back stage before, during, and after each performance Fredric drank copious draughts of ice water and during dress rehearsal required considerable prompting from his partner. Fredric Bickel was always a modest and sensible sort of person: hence, I am led to agree with TIME that twelve years ago he would have been vastly surprised. . . . HOWARD ("SPARKS") DODGE...
...brother-in-law Ernest C. Kanzler are directors) another $11,000,000 in an earlier attempt to buttress the crumbling institution. The R. F. C. had put up $15.000.000. When Union Guardian approached the R. F. C. for more, Senator James Couzens, Henry Ford's oldtime partner and a bitter critic of the R. F. C., insisted that adequate security must be furnished. This the bank could not do for a loan large enough to permit it to liquidate its business as planned. Wealthy Senator Couzens is said to have proposed then to Henry Ford that together they endorse...
...appointed the Agent-General's agent in Paris. Making a huge success of this appointment, Agent Fraser was in at the Paris birth of the Young Plan in 1929. It abolished Reparations as such, abolished the Agent Generalship of Reparations (S. Parker Gilbert cheerfully became a Morgan Partner) and substituted a "businesslike" system of German payments to the Allies through an office at Basle to be named the Bank for International Settlements, nicknamed "Cash Register of the Young Plan...
James Henry Roberts Cromwell, 36, handsome son of socialite Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, sparring partner (as a stunt) of Heavyweight Tommy Loughran, good friend of Joseph Hergesheimer, vice president of Peerless Motor Co., published a book about current economic evils called The Voice of Young America (Scribner- $1.00). Said he: "I'm not a radical like Corliss Lamont. I'm a capitalist, but not their kind. I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left. I don't condemn people who have earned their wealth by giving something in return. Henry...
...Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife, nor Widow), owning a Manhattan restaurant, writing (The Roar of the Crowd...