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Married. James Vail Converse, Manhattan banker; and Ruth Morgan, showgirl (Smiles), his fourth wife (Mrs. Elizabeth Walter Converse, his third, was killed in an automobile accident at Falls Church, Va., last month); at Fairmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...well object to the omission of John Drum, head of American Trust Co., now, after many mergers, San Francisco's large independent bank ($273,776,849 in deposits). Like Giannini, Mr. Drum is a Papal Knight. He is most famed for his starry-domed marble bungalow atop the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. Notable also is able Frank B. Anderson, board chairman of Bank of California; his chief idiosyncrasy, a fondness for donkeys. Paul Shoup, President of Southern Pacific Co. also stands high among the 585,300 citizens who maintain San Francisco's position as first financial city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Big San Francisco | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...other army of grafters. Perhaps I will raise trees. Even if I'm rich now, I don't believe any woman is going to get me" In March, 1927, while the case was on appeal, he became the fifth husband of Mrs. Hersee Gross. At the Fairmont Hotel. San Francisco, he "wasn't so stuck on the highfalutin suite of rooms." But the Desert Rat was temporarily in funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anaconda's Troubles | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Millicent, dowager Duchess of Sutherland, strode up to the locked door of Memorial Hall in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, knocked imperatively. Wet-eyed, she begged attendants to be allowed to see "The Lady in the Green Dress," by John Singer Sargent. She said: "I am sailing for England . . . must see the picture once more. . . . That portrait was made for me. ... I had to sell it." Attendants let the grey-haired Duchess gaze for five minutes upon herself as she looked 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Smaller cities: South Hadley, Mass., Montclair, Morristown, N. J.; Amsterdam, Oswego, N. Y.; Mansfield, Ohio; Appleton, Ripon. Green Bay, Wis.; Keokuk, Iowa City, Iowa; Hutchinson, Winfield, Kan.; Chickasha, Norman, Okla.; Denton, Austin. Tex.; Fairmont, Clarksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Guild on the Road | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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