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From a house on Manhattan's East 49th Street last week went news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...
Watching augustly were the members of the floor committee: Mrs. Field's butler, buck-toothed Hider, chairman and Big Man of the evening; her Chauffeur Haslam; Leonard K. Elmhirst's Butler Grove; Dr. Milton A. Bridge's May, who was once with Reginald Vanderbilt; Banker Winthrop W. Aldrich's handsome affable Wetherall, Charles Morgan's Butler White, Ogden Phipps' big red-faced Parr, who used to work for Lady Astor, a great distinction because Lady Astor entertains a great deal...
...during a sea trip, that Herbert David Croly met the late financier-diplomat Major Willard Straight & Mrs. Straight, sister of Financier-Sports-man Harry Payne Whitney (she is now Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst of England). Greatly impressed were the Straights by the liberalism which their fellow voyager expounded with a quiet intensity which had the ring of personal, religious convictions. Son of a Manhattan journalist, he had studied philosophy at Harvard, edited the Architectural Record, written The Promise of American Life (1909), a book...
William D. Straight, sister of Harry Payne and Payne Whitney, to one Leonard K. Elmhirst, son of an English clergyman; in old Westbury...