Word: isabell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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 Last fortnight Peace Chance was withdrawn because of a wrenched knee.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...
Owner. No less sensational than the career of Cavalcade has been that of his owner, Mrs. Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane. Her father was John F. Dodge who worked for Henry Ford at $25 a week, later founded, with his brother Horace, the automobile business that was sold for $146,000,000 in 1925. When he died in 1922, John Dodge cut off his son John Duval Dodge with $150 a month for eloping with his highschool sweetheart at 20. To daughter Isabel he left more. Educated at Detroit's Liggett School, she went into the Social Register in 1921 when...
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...