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...Communist press, it was notable last week that such prominent Soviet wives as Perfume Trust Manager Zhemchuzhina* and the spouse of Assistant Foreign Commissar Nikolai Krestinsky should have taken Mrs. Davies socially in tow on a round of Moscow creches and factory restaurants while Ambassador Davies, his daughter Emlen and his valet went off to inspect the Ukraine. It was not that Mrs. Davies, the extremely rich General Foods heiress, is known in Russia for her notable philanthropies-on which she did not cut down during Depression, while she did cut down on her parties, one of which included elephants...
...marked Ambassador Davies and Daughter Emlen start this week on a quick swing in their private car around industrial centres within 600 miles of Moscow. Mrs. Davies remains in Moscow as she is "not interested. To avoid indigestion, the Ambassador has informed local Soviet authorities that they will not eat outside their car, thus saving their Russian hosts the cost of local banquets for the U. S. Ambassador. He will feed as many local bigwigs as possible, also five U. S. correspondents. Next the Davieses will hurry to Manhattan, embark on their yacht for the Coronation (see p. 19), thence...
...Berlin the Soviet Ambassador Jacques Suritz, a Jew who by special dispensation of Der Führer is permitted to have Aryan housemaids (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935)> was throwing the biggest Red party of the year for Ambassador & Mrs. Davies and the Ambassador's 21-year-old daughter Emlen. The 50 pieces of Davies hand luggage and the 30 trunks were dispatched to the train by the Ambassador's two male secretaries (one a nephew...
Like Mrs. Hutton's, Joe Davies' affairs had to be reshuffled for the marriage. Mrs. Emlen Knight Davies divorced him last autumn after 33 years of married life. At the same time Mr. Davies' eldest daughter divorced her husband, Thomas P. Cheeseborough Jr. Thereupon Mrs. Cheeseborough became engaged to Senator Millard Tydings (TIME, Dec. 16). Thus for a step-mother-in-law the able senior Senator from Maryland will have Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies...
...world, transatlantic sailing appeals mostly to men .who, if they must live dangerously, have to supply their own danger. Biggest boat (72 ft. overall) in the Newport-to-Bergen race was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade, was sailing Philip Le Boutilliers new boat, Stormy Weather, designed...