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Married. Lois Long ("Lipstick" and "L. L." of The New Yorker), divorced wife of Curtis Arnoux Peters (Cartoonist Peter Arno); and Donaldson B. Thorburn, Shell Oilman; in Manhasset...
...Southampton dock superintendent, "America's foremost British Butler," editor of Staff, secretary & treasurer of the Butlers Club, author of four books 'and 80 short stories. Professionally, however, the impeccable Mr. Moody is butler to Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay (formerly Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady of Manhattan and Manhasset, L. I.), wife of Eire's Minister to the Vatican...
Died-Vivian Burnett, 61, writer, editor, second son of Author Frances Hodgson Burnett for whose famed Little Lord Fauntleroy he was the inspiration and model; in Manhasset, N. Y. When he was seven, Vivian Burnett suggested to his mother that she write books for children like himself. That this prompted her to produce the book that set fashions for a decade and that Vivian Burnett was the prototype of its hero, Authoress Burnett confessed 13 years later when her son was a member of the track team at Harvard. Said Vivian Burnett, who later became a reporter, an editor...
When rich & pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady announced her engagement last February to William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Free State envoy to the Vatican, it also became known that she was planning to turn over her huge Manhasset estate, "Inisfada." to the Society of Jesus, sell off its reputedly brilliant collection of art. Fortnight ago a posse of New York dealers and collectors' agents trekked through the fragrance of a Long Island spring to "Inisfada," paid 50? a head (for charity) to enter the rambling, 87-room Tudoresque structure, took long, thoughtful looks at its contents before the sale...
Twenty miles out from Manhattan on the wooded, hilly North Shore of Long Island, inland from Manhasset, lies a great and famed 225-acre estate, on a road locally called ''The Irish Channel" from the origin of several large landowners along it. Behind massive iron gates, looming almost as large as the late Otto Kahn's huge chateau down near Huntington, stands a rambling, many-chimneyed Tudor house whose four stories and So rooms contain $2,000,000 worth of the world's greatest paintings, tapestries, porcelains and a large, handsome private chapel. Last week...