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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, one of the first persons he learns to recognize is a very tall, very lean, very sunburned man with a decided aquiline nose, a pleasant smile. "That's Russell Doubleday," the new caddy is told. "He's a swell guy." The new caddy soon learns that though...
Proud were four pretty Eastern girls last week. At Hicksville. L. I., they performed the central rites at the opening of the Long Island Aviation Country Club, first of its kind in the U. S. Before several hundred socialites beneath variegated lawn umbrellas, each girl christened a club plane?Bunny, Squirrel, School Marm, Malolo. The girls were Eleanor Hoyt, daughter of Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (see above);* Emily Lawrance, daughter of Charles Lanier Lawrance (see below); Ann McDonnell, daughter of Vice President Edward O. McDonnell of G. M.P. Murphy & Co. (securities); Frances Reaves, daughter of John S. Reaves, chairman...
Frederick Trubee Davison was asked a few days after the Long Island Club's opening, to be chairman of the National Governing Board of Aviation Country Clubs. A very busy public official he could not answer at once...
President of the Long Island Club is Charles Lanier Lawrance. On the board of managers with him there are famed names...
...member of the Royal College of Musicians, all sat up last week to take notice of Composer Eugene Goossens' new opera, Judith. England sat up the most sharply because the premiere was at Covent Garden and because it was the first all-British opera in a long time. Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett wrote the libretto and beamed from a box, while Composer Goossens bowed from the stage, during the ovation. The cast, furthermore, was all-British except for the title part, sung and danced by Gota Ljungberg, able Scandinavienne...