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After the race Omaha's jockey, Willie (''Smoky'') Saunders. who chose his mount's name, beginning with ''O." in honor of its famed progenitor Ormond. said: "Omaha is the greatest horse I ever rode." Said Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon. presenting the gold cup which, in addition to a horseshoe of roses and $39,525. was first prize: "The best horse won.'' Omaha's owner is William Woodward, honorary board chairman of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., chairman of The Jockey Club and probably the most influential owner...
Working in conjunction with the Brooks House, the association will restrict its work for the remainder of this year to a study of the sociological methods employed by agencies about Boston. Perkins Institute will receive especial attention, and the leader of the movement, Chester G. Ormond '38, has announced that his organization will cooperate with the officials of Perkins in their work...
Married. John Jacob Astor 3rd, 21, son of Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte; and Ellen Tuck French, 18, daughter of Boston Insurance Agent Francis Ormond French and Mrs. Livingston French of Manhattan: in Newport, R. I. Notably present were Mrs. Fiermonte, Mr. William K. Dick, her second husband. Nazi Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. Clara Smith, Negro matron of the Newport Casino. Notably absent were Mr. Astor's halfbrother. Vincent Astor; his onetime Fiancee Eileen Gillespie; his stepfather. Prizefighter Fiermonte...
Professor Ames's father, who died last year at 97, was the last Yankee governor of Mississippi, the last surviving Union general of the Civil War. He was long the daily golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller at Ormond Beach, Fla. When Adelbert Ames Jr. set out to track down aniseikonia in 1927, it was John Davison Rockefeller Jr. who furnished the money. Last week the New York Herald Tribune reported the fact that Son Rockefeller himself has aniseikonia, that he has obtained considerable relief from his iseikonic spectacles...
...Ormond Beach next day an armed guard held back a crowd of 50 welcomers while Mr. Rockefeller, blinking through yellow goggles and again warmly clad, was carried in an ambulance chair from train to waiting automobile. "Howdy, Mr. Rockefeller," cried an acquaintance. "Howdy," piped Mr. Rockefeller. His servants pulled down the car's shades, smoothed his blankets, fussed with his coat. "I'm all right," he sighed, a little irritably. Someone asked the servants how he had stood the trip. "It's fine weather," said they...