Word: goelet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Goelet, socialite Manhattan banker whose 50-room Newport mansion was a local showplace (and, at taxpaying time, a bottomless rathole), finally gave it away-to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, for a girls' college...
...finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...
Married. Maria Zimbalist Goelet. daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; and Henry F. Bennett Jr. of Reno; each for the second time; in Philadelphia. Her first was Manhattan Socialite Ogden Goelet...
...world's richest university last week became the owner of one of the world's supposedly swankest hotels. The late Robert Walton Goelet ('02), Manhattan real estate tycoon, bequeathed to Harvard Manhattan's 31-year-old Ritz-Carlton (assessed value: $3,675,000). Harvard will operate the hotel, give Harvard men (and others) an opportunity to advance education by stopping there...
Divorced. Maria Zimbalist Goelet, 25, daughter of Violinist-Composer and new Curtis Institute Director Efrem Zimbalist and of oldtime Opera Singer Alma Gluck; and Ogden Goelet, 33, Newport and Manhattan socialite, amateur pianist; after three years' marriage; in Reno...