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Died. George Jones, 77, Negro, one-time father-in-law of Leonard Kip Rhinelander; in New Rochelle...
...Lampoon at a meeting last night were, on the Literary board, James Parton '34, of Rye, New York; and Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, of Pelham, New York. On the Art board Sidney Carrol '34, Brooklyn, New York, and John Wentworth Pierce '33, of Topsville. On the Business board Kip Natherby '34, New York, and Roger Haydick Weed '84, New York...
...Kip Tarleton was born & raised in Manhattan but his family were impoverished Southern gentry. Kip watched his father drink up the profits of the family hotel, drink himself into his grave. Kip's mother made him swear never to touch a drop, and Kip was willing. Kip was always anxious to do the right thing. When he got a job as assistant superintendent of a big Long Island estate and found that his boss was taking a commission on purchases, he informed his employers, was snubbed for his pains. He met Maggie May (also Southern though not so impoverished...
When Prohibition came into effect Kip and Maggie May, united, rejoiced. When it fell into desuetude they mourned, wished they could do something about it. Kip's chance came when his employer, Banker Fessenden, went into the 'legging racket and had liquor run ashore of nights under Kip's unsleeping nose. One night the watchman was shot. At the coroner's inquest Kip told all. When he lost his job Maggie May became a Prohibition lecturer. She enthralled bigger & bigger crowds, telling about the degeneration of her father. Not to be outdone. Kip...
...Field (department store), Walker Inman (tobacco), Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker (automobile), Edward Delafield (finance), Louise Annette Thompson (railroad), John Bellinger Bellinger (Army), Lora I. Knight (aviation), Beryl Curtis Ward (bread), Dorothy Cochrane Karageorgevitch (Serbian royalty), Peter Arthur Drury Jr. (Washington, D. C.), Sidi Wirt Spreckels (sugar), Adelaide Rhinelander Chaqueneau (Kip's sister...