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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Garrard Winston is, like Reparations Commissioner S. Parker Gilbert, a young man. Last week, he boarded the Aquitania at Manhattan, set off across the Atlantic. The weather was fair. A pleasant trip was predicted. His business? To talk a little, and, if possible, to do a little about collecting European debts...
...reporter on the Aquitania rushed up a fortnight ago to Michael Arlen, Armenian-English author arrived in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his The Green Flat and, ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...
COMING. During the past week the following men and women arrived in the U. S. on the following ships: On the Aquitania (Cunard)-Alvin W. Krech, Chairman of the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan; James Stillman Rockefeller, Captain of the Champion U. S. Olympic Crew. On the Olympic (White Star) - Isaac F. Marcosson, magazine writer; Glenn H. Curtiss, airplane manufacturer; James Speyer, Manhattan banker; Elsie Janis, vaudeville actress; Cyril Maude, English actor. On the Rotterdam (Holland-America)-Medill McCormick, senior U. S. Senator from Illinois; Dr. George V. Butte, Republican opponent of "Ala" Ferguson for Governor of Texas. GOING. During...
...Aquitania (Cunard)-Lord Beaverbrook, British newspaper owner; Rufus C. Dawes, candidate's brother; three Portuguese round-the-world fliers who met disaster in China...
...Aquitania (Cunard)-John Hays Hammond, famed mining engineer; Constance, Lady Baird, and Sir Thomas Glen-Coats with the 4 six-metre British yachts to compete for the British-America cup in the International Yacht Race at Oyster...