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Cruising in the West Indies in December 1934, Vera Stretz met Dr. Fritz Gebhardt. Miss Stretz, 30, had no occupation, enjoyed a small independent income. Dr. Gebhardt, 42, was vaguely connected with the German Nazi movement for the sake of his importing business. Each lived in Manhattan, where the cruise acquaintanceship was continued...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...
Died. Henry J. Pain, 82, retired fireworks manufacturer, pioneer "Prince of Pyrotechnics"; in London. He put on such spectacles as "The Last Days of Pompeii," "The Chariot Race of Ben Hur," "The Battle of Gettysburg," "The Siege of Vera Cruz," "The Destruction of Jerusalem" and "The Battle in the Clouds." Stringent laws and "safe & sane Fourths" brought reverses; his company was finally sold...
...landed a place on Collier's two years ago to do general cartooning. Philbert came to life when Cartoonist Owen discovered he "had been drawing him all the time and didn't know it." Many of his best ideas come from his pretty young wife, Swedish-born Vera Blomquist. The Owens live on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Both are keen admirers of Henry...
...Hastings and St. Leonards Chess Club, were most interested in two equally famed players neither of whom did as well as might have been expected. José Raoul Capablanca, onetime champion of the world, lost two games and finished fourth, a point behind the winners. Fat, solemn Vera Menchik, world's woman champion, was born in Czechoslovakia, brought up in Moscow, now lives in Hastings. She dismayed her neighbors by winning only one game, finishing just ahead of the two Englishmen who tied for last place...