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...Duveen of Millbank. There were plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent by William Goldman...
...Armor & Arms Club's first president in 1921 was the late Bashford Dean, arms curator of the Metropolitan Museum. Now numbering 50 men, probably its best known member is Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay who owns one of the finest private collections of armor in the world. The members are scholars who have written learned papers on almost everything from Japanese sword-guards to lobster-tailed helmets...
...been mounting steadily these past ten years. Last week, after the mighty, culminating finale of Brahms' First Symphony, three thousand listeners rose, cried "Bravo! Bravo!" They cheered so long that Toscanini had to hurry in order to partake of the 3 5-pound turkey which Clarence Hungerford Mackay had sent him from his shooting-lodge in North Carolina...
...American Machine & Foundry) 5,000 Samuel Bayard Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) 5,000 Robert Sterling Clark (broker) . . 4,900 Archibald M. L. du Pont 2,500 Hal Roach (cinema comedies) . . 2,500 William Lockhart Clayton (cotton broker) 1,000 Renée W. Baruch (daughter) . . . 100 Mrs. Clarence Mackay...
...Mackay radio station at Los Angeles last fortnight went a halting message from the tight little tuna-fishing schooner Santa Amaro, Manuel Rodriguez, Master. The Santa Amaro, lying off Marchena Island, one of the northernmost of the Galapagos group, had exciting news to report. Passing bleak, barren, fresh-waterless Marchena that morning her crew spied a small skiff hauled high on the rocks of the shore. Swinging closer they saw a tall pole and fluttering from it a few limp rags. On shore they found a dead seal with strips of flesh hacked from it, a few bits of iguana...