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...public had never heard of him and even among bankers and industrialists his name meant little when, suddenly in 1928, Sosthenes Behn became master of Mackay-Postal telegraph system. When editors cried for a picture of the new successor to the late romantic silver-mining telegraph tycoon John William Mackay, all they could get was a fusty photograph of a man with a beard. This they printed only to be told that Sosthenes Behn had removed his beard some years before. But soon the public learned a lot about Sosthenes Behn...
Born. To Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, and to Rachel Young LaFollette; a son (7 lb. 14 oz.); in Washington. Engaged. Leonora Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married...
...illiterate Missouri teamster, made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold and silver. In 1912 another $1,250,000 pocket was found 2,500 ft. underground. But the Comstock's surprises have been growing scarcer, Virginia City more...
...more men ever were found, alive. The Phœbus's first awful flash of the accident was picked up by a German-speaking operator of Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan at 1:46 a.m. It simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around...
...Long Island last week Mrs. Mackay (Singer Anna Case) was furnishing a gardener's cottage on their Roslyn estate. When the cottage is ready, Mr. & Mrs. Mackay will shutter the big house-paintings, armor, indoor tennis courts & all- let the sunken gardens and model farms run wild, move into the cottage with one servant...