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...Andrews and Mrs. Frankensteen liked each other, too, and in the summer of 1935 the two families took a vacation cottage together at a lake. Andrews invited his elderly millionaire uncle, a retired play producer named Bath, to join them. The Frankensteens were glad of it. Andrews' uncle took them to roadhouses, bought them champagne, brought toys to their children. So generous was he that their vacation cost the two young friends hardly a cent except for rent and food...
...onetime Pinkerton detective named Daniel G. Ross, sales manager of an organization called Corporations Auxiliary Co. He was talking about Richard Frankensteen's 1935 vacation, and about his friend and his friend's "millionaire uncle." But he did not refer to them as "Johnny Andrews" and "Mr. Bath." He called them Agents L-392 and F-B. They were Corporations Auxiliary Co. operatives, hired by Chrysler to spy on the new union by gaining the confidence of its young leader. The bill for champagne, toys and other favors, paid by Chrysler, had been $1,512. Dick Frankensteen understood...
Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt announced that Ranger will be the name of the sloop now being built at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works, with which he hopes to defend the America's Cup this summer. Ranger is the namesake of the first U. S. man-of-war to hoist the new national flag and the first to receive an official salute from a foreign nation...
...Louis woman" or anyone he liked at any hour of the day or night without any more bother than from his own home. Every set of rooms in the houses had a dial telephone connected directly with the town exchange. The bathroom had every modern convenience except a bath, which is regarded by Harvard men as an out-of-date contraption. America has decided that showers are less enervating and quicker. This I think was my first experience of the desire to say: "Well, I may be old fashioned...
...costliest yachts, they ransacked Carrier's in Paris for diadems, in October they picked out the ermine skins recently made up in London for Mrs. Simpson's Christmas (TIME, Dec. 28). Simultaneously she caught His Majesty's servants spending too much for things like bath soap and King Edward sacked retainers right & left on her lightest...