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Vollbehr is eccentric German tycoon- Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr, onetime chemist, onetime China sugar trader. Injured in a Turkish railroad accident, he was advised to adopt a hobby to aid his recuperation, chose collecting European books printed before...
...invitation of Chicago's Cardinal Mundelein who wanted his guests at the 1926 Eucharistic Congress to see it. After the Congress, Dr. Vollbehr took his books on the road, showed them in many U. S. cities with great pomp & circumstance, hoped to sell them to a college or tycoon...
Juan Read, octogenarian Dominican Republic lumber tycoon, retired diplomat, left his Santo Domingo home hurriedly for treatment in the famed U. S. Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Entraining at Manhattan, he rode as far as Rochester, N. Y., where, hearing the station called, he de-trained in a rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered a plane to Baltimore, was shortly under the care of famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young of the Brady...
...Dartmouth literary magazine revived by young Rockefeller (with Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., son of the auto tycoon), "an organization with unlimited possibilities . . . but one which . . . had [lately] come into the hands of light-footed tea drinkers...
Into the capacious lap of Yale ("Mother of Men") fell yet another rich gift last week. In honor of his wife Mabel, sister of the late Papal Marquis Nicholas Frederic Brady, and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, onetime alien property custodian (now chemical tycoon) Francis Patrick Garvan presented to the university his enormously valuable collection of early Americana-furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, prints-to be known as the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections. He also set up a Mabel Brady Garvan foundation to take care of them...