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When Stag-Huntress Mrs. E. Wimbush of Bagborough, England lately expressed her affection for stags, the revered Manchester Guardian attempted to point out the error of the Wimbush way (TIME, March 23). Many another staghounding organization took umbrage, wrote letters flaying the Guardian. But the Guardian's editors have not yet been convinced that stag-hunting is a sublimated form of kindness to animals. Answered the Guardian...
...title-huntress, wearying of her successful hunting, echoes the personality of each new lover in the kaleidoscopic re-furnishings of her house...
Members of the committee headed by the Prince: Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have...
...story opens, she has just left one lover, an unripe Viennese poet, after an idyllic two weeks on a Mediterranean island. When her story ends, she has apparently lost her freedom but attained respectability by a morganatic marriage to a Middle-European prince. But between these two points the huntress of men has had good hunting: Diplomat Count Münsterberg, Millionaire Scherer, simple-minded Wilhelm, Bolshevik Kyril Sergeivitch, English Soldier Felix...
...conventional modes of employing great wealth have not appealed to Edith, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, one-time wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, lion huntress, psychoanalyst, philanthropist, social arbiter. Her method of using her money was to incorporate herself. In 1923 she organized the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust, capitalized with a five-million-dollar contribution from her and $1,500 apiece from Chicago realtors Edwin D. Krenn and Edward A. Dato. Last week the E. R. M. Trust announced a new financing of eleven million dollars in five year 6% gold notes, "unconditionally guaranteed as to payment of principal...