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Horses appealed to Marshall Field more than music, until last winter when the Philharmonic had to beg for its life. Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay, no longer able to take care of its deficits, refused to be its mouthpiece. President Harry Harkness Flagler became the campaign's commander, Marshall Field his gravely alert assistant. Together they underwrote the drive for $500,000. And Marshall Field became so interested in the Orchestra that he subscribed generously to the summer Stadium Concerts, went to many of them, gained a deeper understanding of Bach, Brahms, Beethoven...
...Daughter of Socialite Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph. Two months after her story appeared she married Composer Irving Berlin...
...Pacific, did the generous and courteous thing. He had the necessary spare part in his shops in Omaha. It was rushed out to Denver by airplane over night and so the Zephyr was able to make its record breaking run and Ralph Budd's face was saved. . . . EDWARD HUNGERFORD New York City Pastor's Fast Sirs: My friends have been having a jolly time about the little reference you made to our experiment on the relief diet [TIME, May 21]. . . . We were simply trying out the regular FERA allowance for food. The Rev. Charles C. Noble of this...
...Music Box Revues ran for four years before Irving Berlin met Ellin Mackay, pretty young daughter of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. and an ardent Catholic. Social New York made a great to-do when it discovered that Mr. Mackay's daughter was serious about the songwriter who made no bones about his East Side background. Irving Berlin went quietly about his business, wrote "Always," the song which coincided with their engagement. If it were true that lately he helped his father-in-law to the tune of $1,000,000 Irving Berlin would...
...charge of European operations. Last week not Postal Telegraph but a sister subsidiary in its International Telephone & Telegraph System made a retiring U. S. admiral its active head. Mackay Radio & Telegraph an nounced that on July 1 Rear Admiral Luke McNamee will become president, succeeding pink-cheeked Clarence Hungerford Mackay who will assume the chairmanship. Now 63 and head of the Naval War College at Newport, R. I.. Admiral McNamee is regarded as the handsomest admiral in the Navy. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1892, served on the U. S. S. Princeton in the Spanish American...