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Bertram Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta, co-pilot on the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, was released from jail at Mineola (L. I.) after serving five and one-half months of a six-month term for non-support of his wife and two children, who met him at the gates, welcomed him, took him home...
...Studebaker. In Connecticut she turns herself over to her caretaking couple, her gardens, her guitar. There she entertains her closest friends?Elsie Janis, Ethel Barrymore, Clare Eames, Constance Collier, Mrs. Stuart Benson (business manager of the Civic Repertory Theatre), Madame Ouspensky (directrix of the American Laboratory Theatre), Mercedes de Acosta, Helen Lohmann, Irma Kraft...
...President Hoover telegraphed him congratulations on the dedication of the Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list...
Died. Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 53, once beauteous Manhattan & Paris socialite, divorced wife of the late Wendell E. D. Stokes, widow of Col. Philip M. Lydig (Spanish war hero); of pernicious anaemia; in Manhattan. In 1921 she attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some...
...Bert Acosta, stunt flyer and playboy, was named correspondent in an uncontested divorce suit tried last week in Long Island City, L. I. Said Justice Norman S. Dike of the Queens County Supreme Court: "I have heard of Acosta as a daring aviator. I have also passed upon the amorous activities of Mr. Acosta in a previous case, . . when another divorce was secured, so I judge he is a most active man in other people's families when he is not aviating. It is about time he was eliminated from all public activities...