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...into Kansas. The man is Clement Studebaker Jr., 55-year-old head of all the Studebaker interests, president of the Studebaker Brothers Trust, chairman of the North American Light & Power Co. which holds among other properties the Illinois Traction System (the longest electric raliway in the world)-manufacturer, financier, "clubman" (he belong to clubs in Boston, Detroit, Manhattan, Chicago). The corporations are: 1) the North American Light and Power Co. of Studebaker (value $200,000,000), 2) The North American Co. in which Studebaker and Senator McKinley of Illinois are jointly interested (value $525,000,000), 3) The Middle West...
Died. Albert Merritt Billings, 32, Manhattan clubman, son of Financier-Sportsman Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of New York and California, on his yacht Tropic in New York Harbor, attended by his wife Margaret ("Teen") Shaw Billings; of embolism (blood clot...
...finger-tips, the new Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening up of the old, and a kind of general tone of health and vigor begins to call the languid clubman and the lily-fingered litterateur from their opposite poles and give them a common interest in an important undergraduate occurrence...
...dapper clubman's advances...
...Story. If you marry into Fifth Avenue society at 21, bear a daughter when you are still fond of dancing, choke on the resultant respectability, accept a dapper clubman's advances' and slide out of New York Harbor with him on his yacht, leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist...