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This week will be held the 65th running of the $25,000 Travers Stakes, oldest horse-race in the U. S. When the Saratoga meeting opened, it looked as if the Travers would bring together Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's 3-year-old champion Cavalcade and Joseph E. Widener's Peace Chance, winner of the Belmont Stakes. These horses have not met since the Kentucky Derby. Last fortnight Peace Chance was withdrawn because of a wrenched knee. Last week Cavalcade was disappointingly scratched also, when his trainer decided a bruise on his right front foot would not heal in time...
Looking for socialites in the crowd of 15,000 that watched Col. Bradley's Balladier win the United States Hotel Stakes, photographers found: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (whose Discovery has run second to Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade in four major races this year); Mrs. John Hay Whitney (who goes for morning rides on the backstretch of the racetrack) ; Joseph Widener (just back from Europe, wearing button-shoes); Samuel D. Riddle (who gives a party every time a descendant of his famed Man o' War wins a race); old John Sanford (whose son "Laddie" was playing polo...
Married. John North Willys, 60, automobile manufacturer, onetime (1930-32) U. S. Ambassador to Poland; and Mrs. Florence E. Dolan, 37, of Fieldston, N. Y.; in Miami, Fla. The marriage immediately followed a Miami divorce granted Mrs. Isabel Van Wie Willys, whom he married 37 years ago, on a charge of "extreme cruelty...
...Glen Cove, L. I., Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane lay ill of pneumonia, from a cold contracted while returning from Chicago where she saw her No. 1 horse Cavalcade win the Arlington Classic...
...Margaret Isabel Cole lectures for the University Tutorial classes in London, contributes to The New Statesman and Nation, The Spectator, serves as Secretary to the Socialist League. Graduated from Cambridge (First Honors in classics) she took a job in a Labor Research Bureau of which G. D. H. Cole was honorary secretary. Married in 1918, the two continued to write, for the most part individually of abstruse economics, jointly of fictional adventures. In October, Knopf is bringing out a 400-page joint effort entitled The Intelligent. Man's Survey of Modern Politics intended, the authors say "to . . . present...