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...Clarence Hungerford Mackay, now inactive telegraph, telephone, wireless and radio capitalist, knowing well that the subordinate workers of vast organizations rarely get public praise, established the Clarence H. Mackay Trophy to be given to the Army pilot who performs the most meritorious flight service of any one year. During recent months Secretary of War James William Good has been scanning the 1928 records of Army men. Last week he decided to award the trophy to Lieut. Harry A. Sutton of the Army Air Corps Reserve, who with "quiet bravery, intelligence, skill and spirit" tested out the spinning characteristics of several...
...When his hair was thicker. Clarence Hungerford Mackay took his favorite barber on many a trip...
...notables who put on leather patched shooting jackets, buttoned shooting spats, filled shooting flasks and rode on shaggy Highland ponies to the moors last week, included: Banker John Pierpont Morgan at Gannochy, Forfarshire; Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Glentromie; Engineer and Fly-fisherman Edward R. Hewitt, grandson of Philanthropist Peter Cooper, at BalmakeIlly; Philadelphia Socialite Clarence M. Clark at Murthly Castle; General John Joseph Pershing, crack shot, set out for a party at a spot he declined to name...
Three things which the public mind associates vividly with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings...
Endow as he will, the present Mr. Mackay will never be able to give back to Nevada the color of its oldtime mining days, when his high-spirited mother, Marie Louise Hungerford (Bryant), widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime...