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Heartwarming to Mrs. Fortescue were the messages of sympathy and admiration she received from her old friends in Society ? Mrs. Cornelius Bliss, Mrs. Breckinridge Long, Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. Before leaving to open her Palm Beach season, Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury of Philadelphia wired...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi shuffled over the rose-&-yellow carpets of London's swank Grosvenor House last week to a luncheon in his honor by the old Fruitarian Society. While St. Gandhi slowly chomped grapes and baked apples, Dr. Josiah Oldfield, presiding Fruitarian, spoke...
President Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor of the National Geographic Society: "No explorer ever before has received such a national tribute from school children as you have enabled our young people to present to Admiral Byrd. . . . His name will ever live as the greatest pioneer navigator of the air, as does that of Magellan as the greatest pioneer navigator of the farthermost seas...
Instead of spike-driving, these two gentlemen and a convivial party of 58- including Postmaster General Brown, Superintendent Earl Wadsworth of the U. S. airmail service, Vice-Chairman Graham Bethune Grosvenor of Aviation Corp. (holding company of American Airways), Poloist-Banker J. Cheever Cowdin of Bancamerica-Blair, and many a wife- repaired the night before the line's opening to Atlanta's smart Piedmont Driving Club for a banquet. Georgia's Governor Hardman and Atlanta's Mayor Ragsdale made speeches...
Southern Line. Fortnight ago the route from Atlanta to Los Angeles was opened by Southern Air Fast Express, operating company formed by American Airways (of Aviation Corp.), joint bidder with Southwest Air Fast Express for the mail contract (TIME, Oct. 6). President Coburn and Vice Chairman Grosvenor of Avco made the inaugural trip. Passengers leave either terminus at early morning, may stop overnight at Fort Worth or Dallas (about 16 hr.) and reach the opposite end next evening. (Fare, $147.15). Service will be completed between New York and Atlanta about Dec. 1 when Eastern Air Transport, mail operators, begin carrying...