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April 23 1978

Chess Grand Master Arrives -- International Chess Grand master Miguel Quinteros (left) and his wife, the former Benjie Diaz (centre and watching), playing a game of lightning chess with the captain of the Australian team at the upcoming chess Olympiad, Peter Parr (right). International Chess Grand Master, Miguel Quinteros from Argentina, arrived in Sydney today accompanied by his wife. His wife, the former Banjie Diaz, was a beauty queen in the Philippines. Their visit to Australia is to help promote the chess Olympiad which will be held in Argentina later this year, and also to raise money to send the Australia team to that Olympiad. April 23, 1978. Original b/w photo by Kevin John Berry/Fairfax Media. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://best-in-chess.blogspot.com/p/miguel-angel-quinteros.html https://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-d'actualité/chess-grand-master-arrives-international-chess-grand-photo-dactualité/1079230288

Miguel Quinteros, an Argentinean international chess grandmaster, and his spouse, Benjie Diaz, arrive in Sydney, Australia, April 23, 1978. In addition to raising money to take the Australian team to the chess Olympiad in Argentina later this year, they are visiting Australia to help promote the event. Original b/w photo by Kevin John Berry/Fairfax Media. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/international-chess-grandmaster-miguel-quinteros-and-his-news-photo/1079238616

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April 24 1978

The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Monday, April 24, 1978

International chess champion here to promote Olympiad
Miguel Quinteros, 30, who has been playing chess for 22 years, is an international Chess Grandmaster.
He is in Sydney to take part in the Dunhill Grandmaster Challenge in Martin Place on Friday, which will involve the State's top lightning chess players.
He will also be giving displays of simultaneous chess against members of the public today at The Corso, Manly, at noon and at the Manly-Warringah Leagues Club at 8 pm at the Griffin Centre, Canberra, at 4 pm tomorrow and at the Concordia Club, Stanmore, at noon on Wednesday.
The aim of his visit is to promote the next Chess Olympiad which will be held in his homeland, Argentina, at the end of October. About 100 countries will take part.
Mr. Quinteros said that confidence and study were essential for a good chess player. He studies strategies and moves eight hours a day.
Although he does not see Australia as real competition, Mr. Quinteros says that Australians are good attacking players and he will enjoy playing against them.
He said that the best way for Australia to raise its standard of chess was to hold annual international tournaments which would involve the world's best players.
His wife, Benjie Diaz, does not play chess. She said her husband believed that one chess player in the family was enough.
But that does not stop her giving him moral support during his tournaments.
Mrs. Quinteros, a former Filipino Maid of Cotton (a beauty title), said that even though she did not really understand chess, it was quite taxing on the nerves.
“I get more nervous than if I were playing myself,” she said.

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April 28 1978

Dunhill Grand Masters' Challenge Chess Tournament in Martin Place, Sydney, Australia. Argentina's Mr. Miguel Quinteros, the International Chess Grand Master (left), considers a move while playing the former Australian champion, Mr. Serge Rubinraut, whom he defeated in 30 minutes. April 28, 1978. Original b/w photo by George Lipman/Fairfax Media. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/champions-chess-tournament-the-international-chess-grand-news-photo/1079238608

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April 29 1978

The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Saturday, April 29, 1978

Masterly winner of chess challenge in City
International grandmaster Miguel Quinteros, of Argentina, won the Dunhill Grandmaster Challenge tournament in Martin Place, City, yesterday afternoon.
Quinteros was surprisingly defeated in the first round by a former NSW champion, Abraham Sztern, but played powerful chess to win the last eight games.
International master Meershad Sharif, five times champion of Iran, lost only to Quinteros but drew with R. Travers and A. Flatow.
John Curtis, the Dunhill Lightning champion, was leading the event until he was outplayed by Quinteros and Sharif.
Final scores (10 players, nine rounds): Quinteros (Argentina) 8; Sharif (Iran) 7; Curtis and Flatow 6; M. Fuller 4½; Travers 4; S. Rubinraut and N. Selim 3; Sztern 2; M. Wettstein 1½.
The players had five minutes each to complete each game, so one game could take up to 10 minutes only.
The speed from the first move to the final handshake must have intrigued the ordinary chess player.
But most of the crowd in Martin Place were like Kevin Harrison, 30, of Hunter's Hill, who has played for NSW.
“It's like recognizing a pattern,” he said. “When you have just started playing, you can only see one piece at a time—you can't take in the whole game.”

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Miguel Quinteros, 1970

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1970

Miguel Quinteros, major tournament in Vinkovci, 1970. A tournament where Fischer was supposed to play but didn't make it. The people of Vinkovci sent him off to Argentina! Pero Sentić notes: “A tournament where Fischer was supposed to play but didn't make it. The people of Vinkovci sent him off to Argentina!”

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1897

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August 15 1897

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday, August 15, 1897

DR. BUTTENWEISER HERE.
Dr. Moses Buttenweiser, of Leipsic, Germany, an instructor and writer of note who is to succeed Prof. Margolis at the Hebrew Union College of this city in Biblical exegises and kindred subjects, has arrived in the city, and is at the Stag Hotel.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1909

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January 14 1909

The Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday, January 14, 1909

Philology Helps Her Rear Children
By Ruth Neely.
“I have learned nothing that I do not utilize in the care and training of my four children. My one regret is that my education was not more extensive.” —Mrs. Moses C. Buttenweiser
If a woman of average education had made the above remark, it would hardly warrant notice.
But the statement acquires significance with the additional information that Mrs. Buttenweiser, wife of Prof. Buttenweiser, of Hebrew Union College, is the third woman of America, including Canada, to have graduated from the University of Heidelberg.
The degree that the Cincinnati woman took at Heidelberg is that of Teutonic philology. I suppose one woman in 10 knows what that is.
Yet, according to Mrs. Buttewieser, who is perhaps the foremost college woman in Cincinnati, there hasn't been a bit of her college education wasted.
Before her marriage to Dr. Buttenweiser, which took place in Germany, Mrs. Buttenweiser, a Canadian by birth, had been a teacher at Winnipeg Collegiate Institute.
Now, she admits, her entire time is occupied in caring for four wonderfully happy, healthy babies for whose [illegible] gy, or, at least, the mental culture and strength it gave, and all the rest of the mother's acquirements, are brought into play.
The Cincinnati woman is the most significant Cincinnati exponent of ex-President Eilio's famous statement that the purpose of higher education for women is to make wives and mothers.
This does not mean that Mrs. Buttenweiser advocates turning her back upon intellectual interests and pursuits.
At a meeting of the Susan B. Anthony Club Tuesday the woman graduate of Heidelberg read the most scholarly and one of the most deeply interesting papers ever presented before that body. It concerned the women of Ibsen's dramas, and in her remarks the speaking plainly indicated her sympathy with the famous playwright's views.
“It is a beautiful thing that Ibsen has so often chosen women characters to be the vehicle of his finest thought,” said Mrs. Buttenwieser.
SHOW FREEDOM
“He has given us all kinds of women, but his best stand for thought and growth, truth and freedom, and for sacredness of personality.
“Like his great men, his women rise above sex, creed and conversation. They are free, and that is the greatest recognition any man can show woman, to see in her not the eternal feminine but the human soul.
The college professor's wife is a native on Ontario. She took her first degree at Queen's College, Kingston, and has been accorded the honor of special mention in “Canadian Men and Women's of the Times,” the “Who's Who” of Canada.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1917

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1917

Paul Philip Buttenwieser, 1917 Yearbook, University of Cincinnati.

Paul Philip Buttenwieser, Debate Team, 1917 Yearbook, University of Cincinnati.

Paul Philip Buttenwieser, The Blue Pencil, 1917 Yearbook, University of Cincinnati.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1925

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March 27 1925

Paul Philip Buttenwieser, United States Veterans Administration https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1C-CSBM-X?cc=2968245&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQP8Z-RRT2

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March 27 1925

The Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday, March 27, 1925

'Speed' King of Crosswords
Paul Buttenweiser, Statistician, Wins Tourney
George Lathrop Williams, Former Champ, Is Second by A. Word
As humble representative of that recently discovered and ultra popular volume, the dictionary, I wish to extend congratulation to Paul Buttenweiser, statistician of the Vocation Bureau, Denton Building, on his victory at the crossword puzzle tournament.
The final contest was fought out by Buttenweiser and George Lathrop Williams, former champion, on their respective blackboards in full view of the breathless audience, but with screens between the two contestants. The statistician finished first. Neither quite completed his puzzle, which perhaps was just as well.
Winner Gets Cup
A silver cup was given to the newly acclaimed champion, who was congratulated warmly by the runnerup.

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April 03 1925

The Kentucky Post and Times-Star, Covington, Kentucky, Friday, April 03, 1925

Crossword Champ Has Winning Ways
Aid given to Paul Buttenweiser, 252 Loraine-av, new crossword champion, in his favorite recreation by his two avocations, as statician and psychologist, is very unequal, he admits.
In fact, as applied to puzzles, the training of a statician may be regarded as a total loss.
There is no way of calculating, it was gathered from Buttenweiser, who won the crossword tournament of the Town and County Club, when or how many times the puzzlemaker will feel moved to use long-buried words like “adz” and “apse” and “dost,” instead of the modern improvements.
Psychology, tho, does help, according to the champion.
“If you understand the humor the puzzlemaker was in you can, to an extent, forecast his behavior,” was the psychologist's explanation.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1927

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May 16 1927

The Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, May 16, 1927

To Honor Buttenweiser
Hebrew Union College students will celebrate the 30th year there of Dr. Moses Buttenweiser, professor of Biblical exegesis, at a dinner Monday night in the college dormitory. Dr. Harry W. Ettelson, '04, will speak.

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July 18 1927

Star Will Play 18 Jul 1927, Mon The Kentucky Post and Times-Star (Covington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com

STAR WILL PLAY
Chess Marvel 15 Will Meet 40 Opponents at Once
Sammy Reshevsky, 15, Polish chess prodigy, will play 40 opponents simultaneously at the Grand Cafe of the Sinton Hotel Monday at 8 p.m. under auspices of the Cincinnati Chess Club.
Reshevsky has been astounding the chess players of the world since he was 5. At that he defeated the Polish champion of that time. At simultaneous play he never has lost more than two games. This is the 10th country he has visited and he has 22 medals.
Sammy attends school in Detroit.
At the Sinton Hotel Monday night he will play one game blindfolded against Paul Buttenweiser of the Cincinnati Chess Club, who also will be blindfolded. Reshevsky's other opponents will not have their eyes bound.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1928

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December 11 1928

The Kentucky Post and Times-Star, Covington, Kentucky, Tuesday, December 11, 1928

ALLEGED FORGER HELD IN TICKET SWINDLES
Suspect Admits Signing Physicians' Names, Police Says
Said to have admitted passing forged checks to which names of physicians were signed, a prisoner registered as Paul Buttenweiser, 30, of 252 Loraine-av, was under arrest Tuesday.
It is expected that several affidavits will be filed against him.
He is said to have tendered checks for railroad tickets, sometimes receiving a cash balance. On other occasions, it is charged, he returned the tickets for cash.
On Nov. 19, police were told, 10 packages of blank bank checks and a check writer were stolen from the Raisbeck Co., 625 College-st.
Soon checks bobbed up on various merchants and railroad companies, amounts ranging from $40 to $80.
Buttenweiser, whose father and sister are said to be college instructors, has made certain admissions, according to Robert Ecker and John McGurn city detectives. Railroad operatives also have been investigating the checkpassing epidemic.
Buttenweiser was caught Monday night.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1929

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April 29 1929

Twenty Years Ago In Cincinnati 29 Apr 1929, Fri The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio) Newspapers.com

TWENTY YEARS AGO IN CINCINNATI
(APRIL 29, 1929)
Forty-seven of Greater Cincinnati's best chess players, watched by a large gallery of spectators, took boards into the gold room of the Cincinnati Club to match their skill with that of Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Russian exile and world chess champion. The play began at 8:30 p. m. and the first man down was J. Nader, who lost on the 10th move. Col. C. O. Sherrill lost his game late at night after the 21st move. Dr. Alekhine moved rapidly from board to board, but the play continued into the early morning hours. Paul Buttenweiser, using the Vienna gambit, won a game from the champion who resigned after Buttenweiser's 30th move.

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October 27, 1929

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, October 27, 1929

Last week's results in the local club's 1930 major tourney: Buttenweiser 1, Holt 0; Holt ½, Bierwirth ½; Sawyer 1, Gibbs 0; Borochow 1, Lamb 0; Whipple 0, Scholtz 1; Grabill 0, Buttenweiser 1; Scholtz 0, Borochow 1. Borochow says he was lucky to win from the high-school expert, Willis Lamb. Local High-School Champ Sobral and City Champ Patterson had a battle royal, the latter having the edge at adjournment. Grabill, with a won position, ran over the time limit and lost to Buttenweiser. Borochow made a pretty knight sacrifice to force a win against Doc Scholtz.

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November 03 1929

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, November 03, 1929

The Los Angeles Chess Club's 1930 major tourney saw only three games finished last week, as follows: Buttenweiser 1, Sobral 0; Gibbs 1, Holt 0; Lamb 0, Whipple 1. City Champion Patterson is the only one with a clean score of wins. Buttenweiser, former Cincinnati expert, is second with no losses but has one draw charged against him. Grabill has withdrawn and the few games he played have been canceled.

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December 01 1929

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, December 01, 1929

In the Los Angeles Chess Club's 1930 major championship tourney the three leading contenders, Patterson, Borochow and Scholtz, all remained idle last week. Buttenweiser resigned his adjourned game with Bierwirth. Whipple won from Sawyer. Bierwirth won from Whipple. Sawyer won from Holt. The Gibbs-Buttenweiser game was adjourned with the former having the advantage. The standings: Patterson 4½-½; Borochow 6-1; Scholtz 5½-1½; Buttenweiser 5-2; Bierwirth 4-2; Gibbs 3-3; Sawyer and Whipple 2½-5½ each; Lamb 2-5; Sobral 1½-5½; Holt 1½-6½.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1931

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July 07 1931

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1932

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January 10 1932

Paul Buttenweiser 10 Jan 1932, Sun The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio) Newspapers.com

Another former member of the Cincinnati Chess Club was heard from during the Christmas holidays. Paul Buttenweiser, now a resident of Redwood, Calif., sending the season's greetings to all his local friends, informed us that he is now a benedict. He was married on July 7. He confesses that he hasn't played a game of chess since April 18, 1931, when he lined up with San Francisco against the East Bay team. Paul is a newspaper critic of the Culbertson-Lenz bridge match.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1933

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July 23 1933

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday, July 23, 1933

PROFESSOR'S WIFE DIES.
Mrs. Ellen Buttenweiser Succumbs To Extended Illness.
Mrs. Ellen Buttenwieser, 60 years old, 252 Loraine Avenue, Clifton, wife of Professor Moses Buttenwieser, world famous authority on biblical literature, died late yesterday afternoon at Holmes Hospital.
It was learned from friends that Dr. Buttenwieser, who is Professor of Biblical Exegesis at Hebrew Union College, had himself been rushed to a Canadian hospital a few days ago.
His illness, it was understood, is not serious and, with other relatives, he is expected to arrive in Cincinnati within the next two days.
Mrs. Buttenwieser was a Doctor of Philosophy, having received that degree in Gottingen, Germany.
Besides her husband she is survived by two daughters, Ellen, a student, and Hilda, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, both of this city, and a son, Paul Buttenwieser, Los Angeles.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1938

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August 13 1938

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday, August 13, 1938

Chinese Tot Adopted By Professor's Son
Adoption of Rowena Chan, three-year-old Chinese, by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Buttenweiser, formerly of Cincinnati and now of Menlo Park, Calif., was approved there yesterday by Superior Judge Maxwell McNutt despite the protest of the State Department of Social Welfare, according to an Associated Press dispatch.
Buttenweiser is a son of Dr. Moses Buttenweiser, Professor Emeritus of Biblical Exegesis at Hebrew Union College.
The child's parents consented to the adoption, the dispatch said. They were quoted as telling the court they had arranged to go to China to join in the war against Japan, Mrs. Chan as a nurse and Chan as a soldier.
Buttenweiser, formerly a psychology research assistant at Stanford University, told the court “we love the child.” He said he expected racial differences and personality problems would arise, but that he hoped to minimize them through his training in psychology.

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August 15 1938

Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, August 15, 1938

Adopted
International News Photo.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Buttenweiser, Menlo Park, Cal., have adopted Rowena Chan (above), 3-year-old Chinese girl. The couple became foster parents of the girl because the child's parents will return to China where, because of war, children are not safe.

The Buffalo News, Buffalo, New York, Monday, August 15, 1938
Chinese Girl Adopted
Adoption of Rowena Chan, above, a 3-year-old Chinese girl, by an American couple, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Buttenweiser of Menlo Park, Cal., has been authorized by a San Francisco court. The little girl has lived with the Buttenweisers for eight months. The adoption was decided upon when Harold and Mary Chan, the baby's parents, determined to go back to aid the Chinese resistance to Japan.

The Richmond Item, Richmond, Indiana, Wednesday, August 17, 1938
Strange Adoption—An American couple, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Buttenweiser of San Francisco, have adopted this Chinese girl, Rowena Chan, who has made her home with the Buttenweisers for eight months. The Buttenweisers adopted the child because the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Chan of San Francisco, must return to China where children are no longer safe because of the war.

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August 21 1938

Springfield News-Sun, Springfield, Ohio, Sunday, August 21, 1938

Not Going To Chinatown
AP Wirephoto. Palo Alto, California—Rowena Buttenweiser (she was Rowena Chan) packed her playthings here to go to San Francisco; but she'll not live in Chinatown. She was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Buttenweiser when her parents Mr. and Mrs. Harold Chan gave her up to return to fight for China. She is shown with Mrs. Buttenweiser.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1939

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March 17 1939

The Jewish Press, Omaha, Nebraska, Friday, March 17, 1939

DR. BUTTENWEISER DIES IN CALIORNIA
Palo Alto, Calif (JTA) — Dr. Moses Buttenwieser, retired Professor Emeritus of Biblical Exegesis at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, died here at the home of his son Paul. He was 76 years old and had been ill with a heart ailment for the last three months. He was the author of several works. Dr. Buttenwieser married Miss Ellen Clune of Warkworth, Ont., in 1897. She died in 1933.
Besides Paul Buttenwieser, a member of the West Coast Labor Bureau he is survived by two daughters, Hilda, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, and Ellen, a research worker at that college, and another son, Laurence Buttenwieser, a member of the editorial staff of The Newark (N. J.) Star-Eagle.

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April 21 1939

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday, April 21, 1939

MEMORIAL FOR PROFESSOR.
A memorial service for Dr. Moses Buttenweiser will be held at Hebrew Union College at 8:30 o'clock Thursday night, April 27. Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, New York, will deliver the address. Dr. Buttenweiser, who died in Palo Alto, Calif., last month had served as Professor of Biblical Exegesis at Hebrew Union College since 1897. He was the author of several books and a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Peace League, and Foreign Policy Association.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1941

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March 06 1941

Santa Cruz Sentinel, Santa Cruz, California, Thursday, March 06, 1941

Onetime Stanford Scholar Nabbed As Hotel Thief
San Francisco, March 5 (AP).—Paul Buttenweiser, 42, onetime scholar at the University of Cincinnati and later a research associate in psychology at Stanford University, was a prisoner in the San Francisco county jail tonight after pleading guilty to two hotel robberies.
He admitted holding up the Worth hotel and the Broadmoor, both of San Francisco. In superior court today he asked Judge Robert L. McWilliams for probation. The judge will decide on this March 12.
Police Inspector Max Reznik reported that Buttenweiser also had been identified as the man who, on last December 19, bound and gagged the night clerk at the Cardinal hotel in Palo Alto and robbed the hotel of $30.

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March 21 1941

The San Bernardino County Sun, San Bernardino, California, Friday, March 21, 1941

Ex-Stanford Scholar Sentenced to Prison
By Associated Press
San Francisco, March 20.—Because a probation officer's investigation brought a report he had a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” personality, Paul Buttenweiser, 42, brilliant one-time Stanford psychology research associate, today was sentenced to San Quentin prison on two counts of hotel robbery.
Buttenweiser, graduated from University of Cincinnati with A.B. and B.S. degrees, and who obtained his Ph.D. degree from Stanford in 1935, pleaded guilty to robbing two San Francisco hotels with a cap pistol and potato masher.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1942

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August 06 1942

August 06, 1942, Paul Philip Buttenwieser, Military Registration Card.

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1959

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January 15 1959

The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Thursday, January 15, 1959

Rowena Buttenweiser, the only non-Caucasian showgirl in Las Vegas, Nev. enjoys an off-duty moment at the Tropicana Hotel pool. Miss Buttenweiser, despite her long name, is actually Chinese. She was adopted as an infant by Dr. and Mrs. Paul Buttenweiser of San Mateo. UPI Facsimile

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Paul Philip Buttenweiser, 1960

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July 07 1960

1960, Paul Philip Buttenwieser, Death Certificate

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