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Early in the Depression, dapper, white-mustached Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., and his wife, who was Opera Singer Anna Case, closed their 50-servant "Harbor Hill" mansion on Long Island, ousted their superintendent from his snug, white lodge on the grounds, moved into the lodge. Last week the Mackays prepared to move back to "Harbor Hill." For the present they will open only the south side of the mansion, keep a skeleton staff...
...Woodrow Wilson and other Allied leaders. In 1920 when Marshal Pilsudski was at war with Russia in an attempt to drive Soviet troops from East Galicia, and found his troops beaten at every turn, it was the French military mission, and in particular Marshal Foch's favorite, dapper little General Maxime Weygand, that turned the Bolsheviks from the gates of Warsaw in one of the decisive battles of modern times. Later in Warsaw he became intimate with two men destined to go far, Relief Administrator Herbert Hoover, and Mgr. Achille Ratti, who became Pope of Rome...
...embittered man of 64, Glenn Curtiss has been dead for nearly five years. But Grover Cleveland Loening, B. Sc., M. A., C. E., F. R. Ae. S., F. I. A. S. is at 47 a curiously youngish man to be one of aviation's pioneers. A swank, dapper socialite who still flies often and badly, he is rich, independent, honest, can well afford to tread on many a famed toe, call many a spade by its rightful name. Some typical Loening evaluations...
...Sheehan, a dapper man of 50, appeared with eight pairs of lifelike, flesh tinted, before-&-after models of faces which he had repaired, and two similar pairs of hands. He displayed colored lantern slides of dozens of before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved...
...square-eyed young woman with flowing hair lay on her side on a rolling operating-room stretcher. Down her abdomen ran the bright scarlet streak of a surgical incision, freshly stitched. Above her stood a dapper young doctor in white preparing to give her a hypodermic. In the background another doctor was holding a new baby upside down. Thus last week did Nina Tablada present her idea of a Caesarean section at the 19th annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists on the beaverboard partitions of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace...