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...famed philanthropist and music patron. In the course of eulogies of Mr. Lewisohn by Lieut.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Lawyer George Gordon Battle et al., it was revealed that a chamber music foundation is being planned by a group of patrons headed by Mr. Lewisohn and including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would like to see a more general interest in music . . . more glee clubs and more music in homes." At 80 he is taking vocal lessons, loves to gather his family about him to sing old Hebrew melodies of which...
Died. Frederick De Mund MacKay, 66, horseman, vice president & director of E. W. Bliss Co. (torpedoes); one day before he was to be elected president of the National Horse Show Association; of intestinal influenza; in Brooklyn...
Fire destroyed "Bay Tree House" and about 150 rare Holland bay trees, valued at $30,000, on the Roslyn, L. I. estate of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, threatened a nearby greenhouse containing one of the most valuable orchid collections in the world...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...automobile crash near her husband's Roslyn, L. I., estate caused when her chauffeur swerved to avoid another car, Mrs. Clarence H- Mackay, the former Anna Case, opera singer, was cut on the face and hand, severely bruised...