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Married. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, 38, Manhattan socialite broker; and Nina Gore Yidal. daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore, divorced wife of Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce; in Washington...
Last week Actress Laurette Taylor opened in a play of her own writing. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly, Mrs. Walter Belknap James gave box parties. Governor Green inaugurated a flower show at the Casino. Mr. & Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte arrived to visit her sister, Mrs. Lorillard Spencer. Mrs. Amos Tuck French dropped in on her sister, Mrs. Louis L. Lorillard. Du Ponts, Ripleys, Lippincotts arrived aboard their yachts; the Edris, Elfreda, Fox, Orthea, Kikoko, Oceanic all dropped anchor on a single day. Newport was enjoying the height of its Social Season. And last week...
...Cedar Street. Successively locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is famed for its sloping auditorium, its fine acoustics, its old gas brackets and reflectors. Instrumental in founding Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Hospital and many a mission church, this rich old house of God was once called...
...buggies, phaetons, victorias, coaches. Many were painted green-the Brewster green used by modern paint companies. Brewster carriage makers always got good pay, provided they drank no liquor. Top price for a Brewster carriage was $1,450 and Brewster carriages were in the stables of every Vanderbilt, Astor. Auchincloss and Gould. After James Brewster died in 1866 his son Henry carried on the business, branched into automobile bodies in 1907, aviation equipment during the War. The company's century-old reputation for workmanship was undimmed when Rolls-Royce, casting about for a body as good as its chassis, bought...
...factory was Delman, Inc. Herman Delman has for a decade made high-price shoes for such notables as Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, Mrs. Harrison Williams, many a Brokaw, Auchincloss and Gould. He produces 2,500 pairs a week, makes shoes studded with precious stones, piped with gold and silver, painted with aluminum to shine in the dark. His prices begin at $14.75, sometimes reach $500. Last year when he gave up his retail store on Madison Avenue and confined himself to manufacturing, Saks Fifth Avenue signed a contract for an exclusive agency in Manhattan. Outside Manhattan, Delman shoes are sold...