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SILAS CROCKETT-Mary Ellen Chase- Macmillan ($2.50). Silas Crockett was 23, master of the clipper Southern Seas, when in 1830 he returned to the Maine village of Saturday Cove after a profitable voyage to Canton. He was returning to "the shining coast" to marry Solace Winship, high-spirited daughter of a local builder whose untaught good taste had created masterpieces of native architecture throughout Maine. Self-confident, aggressive, Silas was determined to take Solace with him on his next voyage, feared the opposition of her parents and of his own, was sure Solace would willingly accompany him. But when, after...
Died. Crowell Hadden. 40, half-brother of the late Briton Hadden (cofounder of TIME, died 1929) ; suddenly, of pneumonia following acute appendicitis; at Glen Cove, N. Y. Since his brother's death a director of TIME Inc., Crowell Hadden went from Princeton (1917) into the War (1st Lieut., 106th Field Artillery, 27th Division), became in 1930 a partner of J. E. Aldred & Co. (New York bankers...
...Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen Cove, niece of Poloist Malcolm ("Mike") Stevenson. Said Father Stevenson: "I take great pride. . . . It's like showing a winning horse...
...Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek. The Pratt family's interest in Socony is exceeded only by that of the Rockefellers, Harknesses and Whitneys. And the Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout manned by numberless grooms and milkmen. As many...
Died. George Dupont Pratt, 65, son of the late Charles Pratt who made a fortune in Standard Oil; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove. L. I. Patron of many a public cause, he collected works of art. served ably as New York State Conservation Commissioner, helped found the Boy Scouts of America, develop Saratoga Springs...