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...Harvard, Yale and Princeton men, Browning, King & Co. means college clothes. To railroad conductors, bell hops and steamship officers, Browning, King means uniforms. The 112-year-old clothing firm virtually outfitted the gold rush of '49. John Hazard Browning, descendant of a Rhode Island settler who bought a "dwelling house and two lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around...
...Manhattan. Born Alice Claypoole Gwynne, she was married in 1867 to the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died 1899), grandson of the fortune-founding Commodore. Her only social battle (which she eventually won) was with her sister-in-law, the late Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont) for the supremacy of the Vanderbilt clan. In Newport Mrs. Vanderbilt built "The Breakers," the resort's No. 1 mansion; in Manhattan, with permission of the French Government a copy of the Chateau de Blois, razed from its Fifth Avenue & 57th Street corner seven years ago. Her calling cards read...
Left. By Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont who died in January 1933, in Paris: the bulk of a net estate valued at $1,326,765.63 to her daughter, Mme Jacques Balsan and other relatives; $100,000 (the only public bequest) to the National Woman's Party...
Paramout and Fenway--"Dark Hazard." Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin are together again in a gambling story; capable acting by both. "She Made Her Bed." All that title indicates...
Paramount and Fenway--"Dark Hazard." Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin are together again in a gambling story; capable acting by both. "She Made Her Bed." All that the title indicates...