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THIS WAS MY NEWPORT-Maud Howe Elliott-The Mythology...
...died in 1910, at 91, without ever having been able to live down or live up to that solitary performance. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, a romantic figure, a friend of Lafayette, a soldier in the wars for Greek and Polish independence. In This Was My Newport, Daughter Maud Howe Elliott, now 90, tells what it was like to be the child of celebrities, in a 269-page volume that is half personal and family history, half a reminiscent guide to Newport, and altogether with. out a breath of scandal, malice, adventure or repining...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, tiaraed Queen of New York's and Newport's Old Guard society, won a new title when her partygoing set started a parlor-game fad of tagging socialites with appropriate literary titles. She is now known to her intimates as the Queen of Sheba...
Married. Agnes Pyne Bacon McLean, 29, golden-haired Manhattan heiress (National City Bank), former wife of Socialites John R. ("Jock") McLean of Washington and Robert 0. ("Bunty") Bacon Jr. of Newport; and Ronald ("Ronnie") Hudson, 27, Australian-born in surance man; he for the first time; in Manhattan...
...week's end, on his way to Newport, the usually genial Joe Frazer was not especially happy. He did not mind being the only dollar-a-year executive in the motor industry; his week-old position gives him other compensation of the incentive type...