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Died. Anthony Joseph ("Dandy Tony") Drexel, 70, European socialite, onetime Philadelphia banker; of uremia; in Manhattan. In 1893 he gave up inherited partnerships in Philadelphia's Drexel & Co., Paris' Drexel, Harjes & Co., to live in London. Amid $5,000.000 worth of art in his famed Grosvenor Square house he played host to Edward VII & court until 1915, when he moved to Paris following a divorce from Margarita Armstrong. Credited with the remark that the U. S. was "a hole not fit for a gentleman to live in," he stayed away from it until...
President-elect of IHA is Sir Francis Towle (pronounced Toll), managing director of Gordon Hotels, Ltd. which owns, among others, London's Mayfair, Metropole and Grosvenor. His brother Arthur Edward, also in Manhattan last week, runs the biggest hotel chain outside the U. S., a string of smaller places the length & breadth of the British Isles. On the side he directs the dining-car, restaurant and hotel division of London, Midland & Scottish...
Second Day. Still far in the lead were Britons Scott & Black in their De Havilland Comet Grosvenor House. Behind them as they sped over the Bay of Bengal for Singapore were Parmentier & Moll. At Allahabad these two had lost valuable minutes when they carelessly took off without one of their passengers, had to return to pick him up. Two other Hollanders, Asjes & Geysendorfer, smashed their undercarriage landing at Allahabad. Their mishap put Turner & Pangborn in fourth place, which soon became third when they passed the Mollisons at Karachi. The Mollisons left there two minutes later, got lost, developed motor trouble...
...play is under the direction of F. C. Packard, Jr., assistant professor of Public Speaking. The production staff is headed by Andrew J. Day '34, with Edwin I. Brainard '36 as Business Manager. Grosvenor Proctor '35 will be stage manager, Richard W. Clattenburg '35 has been selected publicity man, and Charles F. Goodale '34 will have charge of the costumes. The cast includes Robert Clement '32, John G. Patterson '35, Shipherd Robinson '36, Richard Morgan, IV '36, John T. Mendenhall '36, Thomas E. Naughten '34, William P. Rockwell '35, Robert S. Hornwell '35, and William H. Jefferys...
When the U. S. entered the War, Peek was abroad helping the French Government amass military materials, a job for which his 23 years with Deere & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, prepared him. Alexander Legge of International Harvester called his competitor home to sit on the War Industries Board. Grosvenor B. Clarkson, director of the Council of National Defense and the Board's biographer, has described Peek as "impetuous, impatient, impulsive, explosive, restless, driving ... a photographic observer. . . . For Peek the world was a sharp black-&-white drawing. His decisions were as clear-cut as Legge's, but they...