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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Van Alen, 30, of New York: the U. S. court tennis championship, 2-6, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the final against the Defending Champion William C. Wrright of Philadelphia; with Jay Gould, long the best player in the world, watching; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 3, 1933 | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Divorced. Prince Alexis Mdivani, one of three Georgian brothers (others are divorced from Film Actresses Pola Negri and Mae Murray); and Princess Louise Astor Van Alen Mdivani, Manhattan socialite; at The Hague, Holland. Prince Alexis, son of the late Tsar Nicholas' aide-de-camp, lost his standing as "unofficial ambassador from Georgia" at Paris, by a new non-aggression pact signed last fortnight by France and Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

William Van Alen (Chrysler Building) showed a 4½ Ib. black bass and William F. Lamb (Empire State) a collection of China pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spare Time | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...accompanied Stylist Gabrielle Chanel to Hollywood last spring. The present Senora Sert was once Princess Mdivani of the much-married Mdivanis of Georgia (South Russia). (Brother David married Cinemactress Mae Murray; Brother Serge married Cinemactress Pola Negri, then Soprano Mary McCormic; Brother Alexis married Socialite Louise Astor Van Alen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: School Builder | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

Engaged. Elizabeth Brinton Kent, daughter of Arthur Atwater Kent (radios) of Philadelphia; and William Laurens Van Alen,* member of the Oxford-Cambridge tennis team which played against Yale-Harvard at Newport in 1929, descendant of the first John Jacob Astor, grandson of the late Ambassador to Italy James J. Van Alen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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