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...outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers. Sister Mary is constantly in touch with her brother by telephone. Together they joined Vincent Astor in financing Today. Mentioned for Minister to some European capital last week was another Harriman (distant cousin by marriage of Son Averell and Sister Mary)-Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, a Wilson Democrat, whose Sunday night salons have long been a Washington institution and who once trimmed the bristling mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Harriman Deal | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Haslam; Leonard K. Elmhirst's Butler Grove; Dr. Milton A. Bridge's May, who was once with Reginald Vanderbilt; Banker Winthrop W. Aldrich's handsome affable Wetherall, Charles Morgan's Butler White, Ogden Phipps' big red-faced Parr, who used to work for Lady Astor, a great distinction because Lady Astor entertains a great deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Butlers | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

Francis David Langhorne Astor, 21, undergraduate son of England's Lord & Lady Astor, who two years ago passed his Oxford vacation working on a collective farm near Moscow, joined the British Labor Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 8, 1934 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

Died. Henry Frederick Lippitt, 77, president and board chairman of Manville Jenckes Co., Rhode Island's largest ($39,000,000) textile firm, vice president of Cotton Textile Institute Inc., onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, yachtsman (his sloop Weetamoe won the Astor Cup in 1906); of a heart attack; in Providence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1934 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...present able and mentally alert to be a successful cinemactor. He plays golf in the 703, wants to write short stories, is incorporated under his real name, Harry Lillis Crosby. His acting shoes contain one and a half-inch "lifts." His great-great-grandfather was one of John Jacob Astors sea captains. His wife, onetime Cinemactress Dixie Lee, calls him the Crooner. Says Crosby : "I'd like to be able to sing like the crooners. The reason is a crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half his natural voice. That's a great saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lowell v. Block Booking | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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