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...Guernsey...
...bought a 2,000-acre estate at Lloyd's Neck on Long Island. There he built a magnificent Georgian mansion overlooking Long Island Sound, a Georgian stable embellished with scrollwork, numerous cottages and barns, a 20-car garage, a power plant. He collected paintings. He kept prize Guernsey cows. He contributed to the Republican Party. He became a director of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and a dozen other companies. He helped support the Field Museum in Chicago. His grandfather's estate, of which he is one of the trustees, spent $4,000,000 building low-cost apartments...
Biggest bidder was a Guernsey hotelman named Walter Martin. Bidder Martin bought 750 lots, including the contents of the captain's cabin, which cost him $930. But his No. 1 prize was a piece of the port bow bearing the ten metal letters MAURETANIA. For that he gladly paid $750. The letters from the starboard bow sold individually for $20 each. Total realized...
...cows and a 1,200-lb. Guernsey bull named Klondike Iceberg-first bull ever born in Little America; 15 emperor penguins, of which one was decidedly indisposed; the knowledge that seal meat looks like liver, but tastes different; indisputable proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
...severely cut by the ice. He bought his eggs by the week, turned them over each morning like so many hour-glasses, so that the yolk would not settle to the edge, start rotting. After three years of London, Fowler joined his brother Frank on the island of Guernsey, lived in hermit-like sociability, 50 yards away from him, until the War. Fowler liked to work sitting in the door of his cottage, dressed in football jersey and shorts. At 50 Fowler quietly married a middle-aged hospital superintendent, as garrulous as he was taciturn. Their marriage was childless, happy...