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Thus, without capitals, were the headlines and picture captions in vanity fair for October. Always arty, Conde Nast's monthly smartchart of fashionable foreignisms seemed like an esthete who had discovered a bigger, fancier orchid for his buttonhole...
Died. Mrs. Ella H. Pancoast Widener, of Elkins Park, Pa., wife of Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia financier, horse fancier, art collector; of heart disease; in Elkins Park...
Good President Hainisch, snowy of beard, kindly of eye, fancier of prize cows (TIME, April 2) has little to do except sign bills and graciously conduct state functions. In bygone years Frau und Mutter Hainisch, spouse of a potent industrialist, vigorously directed her son's education at Leipzig and his subsequent career in the courtly civil service of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, Hungarian King. But, in order that her son might have two strings to his bow, wise Mutter Hainisch encouraged her Michael to become the erudite and scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology...
Porko, pedigreed Duroc Jersey pig, with two Great Danes, two Afghan hounds, many a crate of pheasants and chickens, left on the motorship Santa Maria, in the charge of Dog-fancier José Leguia, son of famed Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru. Porko will not grace the Presidential pigpens. Son Leguia intends him as a gift to a friend. Danes, hounds, will join 60 dogs at his Peruvian farm, 150 miles from Lima...
Died. Moses Taylor, 57, Manhattan capitalist and famed dog-fancier; of apoplexy; in Mount Kisco...