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Died. Mrs. Alice Brown Davis, 82, chieftain of the Seminole Indian nation; of heart disease; in Wewoka, Okla. Daughter of a Scottish physician and a Seminole princess of the Tiger clan. Mrs. Davis was appointed chief of the Seminoles by President Harding in 1922 to succeed her brother, the late Governor John F. Brown Jr. of Oklahoma...
...Journal ("Covers Dixie Like the Dew"-with 86,600 circulation) was formally taken in charge by the family which has really owned it for the last 40 years-the House of Gray. The late lawyer-politician James Richard ("Jim") Gray, who married Mary Inman of the rich, aristocratic Inman clan, acquired the Journal in 1896 from Hoke Smith, twice Governor of Georgia, twice U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland. When President Gray died in 1917 John Cohen, a Journal newshawk since 1890, was put into the front office as active head of the paper but Widow Gray...
President Bernard, most popular of the Gimbel clan, is friend to Gene Tunney and lesser celebrities, spends leisure hours entertaining richly on his Port Chester, N. Y. estate. Cousin Richard, no socialite, expresses himself by pride in his four children and by collecting the works of Edgar Allan Poe whose cottage on Brandywine Street he endowed and refurnished. Between Cousin Bernard and Cousin Richard bad feeling has long existed. After Richard Gimbel had put the Philadelphia store into the black, his salary was cut and he was removed from control-an episode he never allows Cousin Bernard to forget since...
...Damrosch name grew strong and so did the clan. When Walter had his hands full with his orchestra. Brother Frank took over the Oratorio Society, relinquished it in 1912 to head the Institute of Musical Art, now a part of the Juilliard School of Music. Brother Walter kept his programs consistently fresh and enterprising (even to the extent of sponsoring the first serious efforts of the upstart George Gershwin). But he was besieged by financial worries until 1914 when his friend Harry Harkness Flagler took over the Symphony's deficits, bore them single-handed until the merger with...
...honest fellow. He is friend to many a British pacifist yet he believes in what he calls "the eternal sacrament of war." In his career, he goes slowly and prudently, saves all his violent and romantic impulses for his books. He married a daughter of the rich Grosvenor clan, the Duke of Westminster's second cousin once removed...