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...swell. Ships bells on scores of pleasure craft and naval vessels clanked off the half hours. Over on the Nourmahal the Astors felt sticky; so did the Morgans on the Corsair, the Manvilles on the Hi-Esmaro, the Jameses on the Aloha. You could not see to Brenton's Reef Lightship, 9 mi. northwest of the starting line; you could hardly see as far as the Committee boat. It looked like...
...brain busy behind his square, high forehead, prodding out through his pince-nez, the U. S. looks as the course signals go up on the committee boat in answer to a southwest September wind and the two sloops put over the line, from Brenton's Reef to sea, from sea to Cuttyhunk...
Active head of the new bank will be Clyde Edward Brenton, 61. The Brentons are an old Iowa banking family, with homestead at Dallas Center, 24 miles west of Des Moines. The late William Henry Brenton founded a private bank at Dallas Center, and extended it into a chain. He also acquired Iowa farm land. When he died his sons inherited the banks and 10,000 acres of land. Clyde Brenton has no children of his own, so he adopted Harold, his nephew, who, now 30, married and father of two children, is the sole heir to the Brenton fortune...
...believer in presidential dignity, rarely does President Hoover lend himself to advertising publicity. Last week however he did, when Washington's Senator Dill brought to the White House for a presidential greeting Miss Helen Brenton of Tacoma, Wash., Smart Set's choice of a "Typical American Girl...
Died. George Brenton McClellan Harvey, 64, editor since 1899 of The North American Review, and of the defunct Harvey's Weekly; "discoverer" of Woodrow Wilson, 1912; supporter of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1920; Ambassador to Great Britain, 1921-23; of heart disease; in Dublin...