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...persuaded Captain Corry to sell him for $1,200. Since then, First Attempt -renamed Little Squire-has been the darling of U. S. horse shows, the household pet of his four successive owners: Rider Danny Shea (trainer for the stable of the late Publisher Hugh Bancroft), Copperman Robert Guggenheim, Boston Clothier William J. Kennedy. Schoolboy Francis Cravath Gibbs (13-year-old grandson of the late Lawyer Paul Cravath), who paid...
...publicity man hustled out, shooed the Willkiettes away. Conscious of his duties as a host, earnest President Gates meant to permit no discourtesy to the guest of the day: the President of the U. S. He had made short work of a testy complaint by old Mining Magnate William Guggenheim against the "special prominence" to be given Franklin Roosevelt at his alma mater's celebration. Headliner of Harvard's Tercentenary, President Roosevelt was also to be headliner of Penn's Bicentennial...
University of Pennsylvania Alumnus William Guggenheim, copper tycoon, chronic writer-to-the-papers, 71 -year-old songwriter (You're a Glamour Girl, Crumbs of Love), caught wind of a U. of P. plan to award Franklin Roosevelt an honorary degree. To President Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner, he sent an indignant wire, declaring that he believed the "vast majority of our 40,000 or more alumni, who are Willkie-for-President men," would be as shocked as he, hoping President Gates would "rectify what must be an unintentional mistake...
...Harry F. Guggenheim (see p. 54}, chairman of the "Wings for Willkie" com mittee, achieved a low point in defense debate, confusing the civilian CAB's apprentice-pilot-training program with the wholly separate advanced training of com bat pilots and calling it "mass murder." The week's actual defense progress...
This week another of Joseph Medill's dynasty, brown-eyed, athletic, 30-year-old Alicia Patterson, the Captain's daughter, became a publisher. Wife (since July 1939) of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, Alicia has like him been a flying enthusiast, been married thrice. (Husband I was the late James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s onetime chairman; Husband II was Broker Joseph W. Brooks.) Her newly founded paper: an evening tabloid, Newsday, a "country newspaper" for rich, suburban Nassau County...