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...Women's Singles. When Helen Jacobs got on the Wightman Cup team (1927), Helen Wills won her first title at Wimbledon. When Helen Jacobs was presented at Court (1935), she was six years behind Helen Wills, who by that time had married a San Francisco broker, Frederick Moody. In the long rivalry between the two, they played each other eight times. Helen Wills Moody won seven. Helen Jacobs won once, in the U. S. final at Forest Hills in 1933, but only when her opponent defaulted under highly debatable circumstances in the third set. A year...
Newport's pious Mrs. Aymar Johnson, wife of a Manhattan broker, daughter of a Manhattan realtor, granddaughter of two Episcopal ministers, had worked mightily preparing the way for the Oxford Groupers. By the time they reached the resort, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie, whose daughter Eileen came within an ace of marrying John Jacob Astor III, had arranged a large reception for them. The godmother of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry Parish, put up one team member. The wife of the head of the Allerton Hotels system, Mrs. James Stewart Cushman, vice president of the World...
...Glen Cove last week arrived Grain Broker Herbert L. Bodman on his yacht. He was returning from a three-week, six-horse cavalcade on which, followed by chauffeur & groom with Ford trailer containing stove, icebox and 200-lb. of oats, Broker Bodman, his wife, their son & daughter and two friends had ridden horseback 360 miles to Rutland...
Last week Leo Belden was a Wall Street stock broker and Elisha Walker was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb, while "A. P." Giannini was once again busy spreading his banking empire over the western U. S., which is legally kinder to branch banking than any other section. In 1931 he accepted the loss of his Manhattan bank, concentrated on bringing little Western banks into the fold of San Francisco's great Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (with 447 California branches) and Portland's First National Bank (with 28 Oregon branches). Two years ago Transamerica edged eastward...
Hazel-eyed, dark-haired, 6 ft. 3 in., and 40, Winner Hill is a broker (Manhattan's Calvin Bullock), married to onetime Elinor Dorrance (Campbell Soup). Winner of the hard-fought prettiest-girl title was blonde Adelaide Whitehouse, debutante daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Fitz Hugh Whitehouse of Manhattan...