Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born into a wealthy family (her grandfather was Banker Robert Livingston Cutting), she made her own debut in 1890 with the present Lady Ribblesdale (once Mrs. John Jacob Astor). When the family fortune fizzled, she taught ballroom dancing, then began to run other people's parties. Among her notable managements were the Joseph E. Davies-Marjorie Post Hutton wedding, a Long Island party for the Prince of Wales, the Ritz-Carlton reception for Queen Marie of Rumania (remembering the gate crashers, she later remarked that apparently "there was never in history a country which had quite so many warm...
When Moore held his first London exhibition in 1928, Artists Augustus John and Jacob Epstein helped by buying drawings. England's conservative critics did not share their enthusiasm. Said London's Morning Post of early Moore exhibitions of carvings: "They are not 'art'; they should come under the heading of 'Embryology and Morphology.'. . . Sensitive people, especially women, must shudder in the face of these monstrosities." But Moore has continued for years to use the female figure as a base for fantastic exercises in form...
Divorced. John Jacob Astor III, 31; by Ellen Tuck French Astor, 26; after eight years; in Reno. She got a million-dollar settlement, joint custody of their son William...
...Author. David L. Cohn, 46, one-time national advertising manager of Sears, Roebuck, good friend of Sculptor Jacob Epstein, Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis and Rebecca West, is now a policy adviser with the British Information Service in Washington. He is a bachelor...
Schofield Andrews, Jr., David Bullard, Arnold, Jr., Alfre Lerow Atherton, Jr., Warren Stanley Berg, Stuart Marshall Beringer, David George Bernard, Franklin Swift Billings, Jr., George Edward Byers, Jr., George Scull Cook, Jacob Leslie Crane, 3d., Richard Lloyd Davies, George Chaffee Dillon, Frederick William Eaton, 2d., James Murray Forbes, Henry Edgar Frachtman, George William French, 2d., John Winslow Frenning, Bernard Sholom Glassman, Aram Harry Hatch...