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Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics...
...Trubee Davison was never to see active service abroad. In July 1917 his plane crashed in Huntington Harbor and he was extricated from the wreckage more dead than alive. His back was broken. Specialists predicted he would never walk again. But he did, and now he plays tennis. He returned to Yale, was graduated in 1919. The Navy awarded him its cross for "exceptionally meritorious service...
...Gulf hurricane was wrecked the yacht Wild Duck, floating clubhouse of the Sabine Pilots' Association. The Wild Duck was once the pleasure craft of Andrew William Mellon. She carried Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. on their honeymoon. In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II. For a time she was chartered by Harry Kendall Thaw, whose guests were Evelyn Nesbit and William Travers Jerome. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910 she evacuated 200 Americans from Vera Cruz, was hit by shellfire...
...King Carol; and Archduke Anton of Habsburg; a son; in Vienna. Name: Stephan. Married. Walter Joseph Smith, 22, youngest son of Alfred Emanuel Smith; and one Florence Elizabeth Watson, 22, of Schenectady, N. Y.; in Schenectady. Married. Charles Sumner Fess, 35, son of Ohio's Senator Simeon Davison Fess; and one Myrtle Esther Kirkpatrick, 33, of Washington, D. C.; in Rockville, Md. Married. John Gilbert, 35, film actor; and Virginia Helen Briggs (Virginia Bruce), 21, film actress; in Hollywood. His three earlier wives: Olivia Burwell, Leatrice Joy, Ina Claire. Separated. Sacha Guitry, actor, famed as "the perfect lover...
Flying from Washington to the Pacific Coast last week Assistant Secretary Davison declared himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of New York. His announcement was in the form of a telegram to James L. Downey, State Committeeman of Long Island's swank Nassau County, thanking him for his offer to withdraw as candidate for Attorney General in order to allow Mr. Davison, also of Nassau, a chance to head the ticket...