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...biggest privately owned yacht in the world is the Orion, 333 ft. long and 46 ½ ft. wide. Last week it arrived in the U. S. from the builder's yards at Kiel on its first trip; on board was Owner Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J. The Orion is a white ship, one-funnelled, 3,096 tons, 1,800 h. p. (twin Diesels), with a crew of 54 officers and men (including a purser, a doctor). She cruised to the U. S. from Kiel via the Barbados and Havana. This autumn Yachtsman Forstmann will take...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Winston Guest of Long Island with Eric Pedley and Elmer J. Boeseka Jr. of California prevented the college-boy Old Aikens, green-shirted national junior champions (TIME, Aug. 5), from becoming the year's outstanding U. S. polo team. by galloping through them, 18 goals to 8, in the final of the Waterbury Cup matches at Meadow Brook. Both teams were put out early in the open championship, won last fortnight by Irish Captain C. T. I. Roark's four...
Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J., steamed into New York harbor on the world's largest, costliest yacht ($2,000,000), his new Orion...
Samuel C. Hildreth, 63, oldest U. S. race horse trainer, longtime handler of Harry Ford Sinclair's Rancocas stables (Zev), owner of Strombolt Farm (Trenton, N. J.), entered a Manhattan hospital for observation and intestinal operation...
...Scandinavian countries 2.6; Holland 2.3 (the lowest). Of U. S. maternal deaths, 65% are due to blood-poisoning contracted at the time of delivery or immediately after. Other mortal causes include lack of prenatal care. poor home conditions, general ill-health. Dr. Edward Joseph Hill of Newark, N. J.. tried to introduce the claim of Dean Henry Hurd Rusby of Columbia's Department of Pharmacy that rotten ergot causes many of these deaths (TIME, July 22). The American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons (formal name of the Memphis conferees) assigned the topic to a special investigating committee...