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Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin is a blueblood, a clubman, a bon ivant, friend of kings and minor potentates. He can write and draw with both hands and both feet simultaneously (after first re moving his shoes) and has occasionally done so in legislative assemblies. As a graduate of St. Paul's and Harvard, and a man with a natural flair for festive living, he enjoys association with First Families, likes good clothes, fine horses, fine wines. Son of a rich family which lost its fortune, he is often almost broke, lives in genteel and sprightly style by doing public...
Then there was Banker Hjalmar Schacht who, so far, had been as stiff in court as his famous, forbidding four-inch collars. Always a solid citizen, a self-made man who had risen from a small clerkship to the presidency of the Reichsbank, a clubman of quiet but expensive style, he held aloof from riffraff like Göring-whom, he said, he would now gladly kill with his own hands. The record read: Schacht was host at a special meeting of German industrialists called to raise money for the Nazi Party before the March 1933 elections. If Hitler...
Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, late No. i U.S. clubman, posthumously appeared by proxy in Manhattan's Surrogate Court. The claim of $231,750, brought against his estate after his death in 1942 by Muriel Paterson, onetime showgirl, who charged that Vanderbilt had guaranteed her $750 a month for life for acting as hostess on his yacht and for "special services" rendered, was finally settled in full...
...fond tribute to the late great Architect Stanford White, to the old Waldorf, to the full-rigged hostess of the 1900s, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. He is an accomplished toastmaster, cotillon leader, bon vivant who neither drinks nor smokes, first-nighter, balletomane, golfer, bridge player, cat enthusiast, and clubman (Union, Knickerbocker). He once hired Dorothy Parker to write for him on the strength of one line she produced in an advertising agency ("Brevity is the soul of lingerie...
...Beard felt like that for the next 80 years. He became a civil engineer, surveyor, map worker. Then he sold one of his fish drawings for $25. (Said Dan dreamily: ". . . Darned if I'd work any more.") He became a famed illustrator, a Manhattan clubman and after-dinner speaker. But he always seemed a little out of place with such sophisticated, mauve-decade colleagues as Charles Dana Gibson. He illustrated A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court for Mark Twain...