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Fair and John W. Mackay, father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Hungerford Mackay. Said to be richest claim in the world, the Comstock yielded $340,000,000 pay dirt between 1864 and 1884, brought Fame & Fortune to the combination of Mackay, Flood, O'Brien & Fair...
Seeking Separation. Mrs. Grace Mackay Tibbett, 34, from Lawrence Tibbett, 34, Metropolitan Opera and concert baritone, cinemactor (New Moon, Prodigal). Married in 1919 after a courtship that began when they were both students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, they are the parents of twin 11-year-olds, Lawrence Mackay & Richard Ivan. Said she: "Fame and family happiness are not consistent. It is not anything more than that...
Married. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 57, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., director of Metropolitan Opera Company; and Anna Case, 42, onetime Metropolitan Opera and concert soprano, daughter of a South Branch, N. J. blacksmith; in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Roslyn, L. I., not far from Mr. Mackay's $6,000,000 estate "Harbor Hill." Among those witnessing the ceremony were the groom's daughter Ellin and her husband, songwriter Irving Berlin, whom Mr. Mackay had never before countenanced. After the ceremony bride & groom cruised away on his yacht Manchonoch...
...First one-eyed pilot to fly the Atlantic, Pilot Post was not the first to try. Before him went Francis Coli, lost in 1927 with Charles Nungesser; and Walter G. Hinchliffe, lost with the Hon. Elsie Mackay in 1928. Other famed uni-oculars: Golfer Tommy Armour, Reporter Floyd Gibbons, Gatecrasher "One-Eye" Connelly, Admiral Lord Nelson, Reformer William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, "Big Bill" Heywood, Fisticuffer Harry Greb...
...payment of a bad debt, the Behn Brothers took it over, combined with it the Cuban telephone system a few years later. They have been accumulating telephone and telegraph systems the world over ever since.† I. T. & T.'s most noteworthy purchase in North America was the Mackay companies which included Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., bought in 1928. Col. Sosthenes, the more glamorous half of the Brothers Behn, acquired his title during the World War when he distinguished himself with the U. S. Signal Corps in France. An industrial Don Quixote, he specializes in daring enterprises. As chairman...