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Years ago he bought a large estate in Oyster Bay, L. I., hard by Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill. Here he designed and built an amazing house, "Laurelton Hall." which looks a little like a M axfield Parrish palace, a little like a factory, is magnificently kept up and contains a mosaic chapel, greenhouses, fountains, innumerable stained glass windows, rubber trees, orchids, and, frightening to children, a colossal bronze crab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Oyster Bay | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Amateis and Kimon Nicolaides are friends, unofficial assistants of Director Lothrop. And though the roster contains such Nor dic names as Gerald Foster, Erna Lange, David McCosh, there is preponderance of others like Romano, Vincenzo D'Agostino, G. Prestopino to give a Florentine glitter to the art guild of Oyster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Oyster Bay | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...metre yacht team: a series of match races with the English team in Long Island Sound off Oyster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Sep. 15, 1930 | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...eyes said to Major Butt: "Archie, I don't see what I could have done to make things different. Somehow people have convinced the Colonel I've gone back on him. It distresses me more deeply than anyone can know to think of him sitting there at Oyster Bay alone and feeling himself deserted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dear Clara | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...significance was the annual revival of the oyster business, starting last week. But of great significance was a 6,000-ton steamer, slowly going down the Atlantic seaboard. She was the Frango, first ship of the new American Whaling Co. Aboard her are 69 oldtime Norwegian whalers. In charge of the expedition is Captain Olaf Stokken of Sunnyfield, N. J.; in charge of the vessel is Captain Johannes Smith of Freeport, L. I. Off Georgia the Frango will be joined by four small "killer" boats, will then proceed to the Antarctic. Unfamiliar in this region is the U. S. flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sea Business | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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