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Siegel
U.S. gangster. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he began his career extorting money from Jewish peddlers on New York's Lower East Side. He joined with M. Lansky and began operating bootlegging and gambling rackets; they later formed the forerunner of Murder, Inc. In 1937 he was sent to develop rackets on the West Coast, and soon set up gambling dens and ships as well as narcotics smuggling and blackmail operations. In 1945 he built the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Originally budgeted at $1.5 million, its cost was driven to $6 million through his skimming. This angered Lansky and other bosses, and Siegel was shot down in his home.
Ziegfeld
U.S. theatrical producer. Born in Chicago, he worked as a publicist for Sandow the strongman before turning to theatrical management in 1896, and his press releases promoting the French beauty Anna Held set a pattern of star-making publicity. In 1907 in New York he produced the first of his Ziegfeld Follies, revues which combined seminudity, pageantry, and comedy in a formula that he repeated successfully for 23 years. Under the slogan "Glorifying the American Girl," he made the revue an extravagant spectacle and developed such talent as W. Rogers and F. Brice. He also produced the hit musical Show Boat (1927).
Ziegler
German chemist. He held academic appointments at the Univs. of Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg, and Halle, and in 1943 he became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm (later Max Planck) Institute. He was the first to explain the reactions involved in the synthesis of rubber (c.1928). His most important work, in the 1950s, led to the discovery that certain catalysts permitted the fast polymerization of ethylene at atmospheric pressure to a linear polymer of high molecular weight having valuable plastic properties. His work formed the basis of nearly all later developments in the production of long-chain polymers of hydrocarbons from such olefins as ethylene and butadiene; the resulting products came into widespread use as plastics, fibers, rubbers, and films. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize with Giulio Natta (1903-1979).
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