Word: poloist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Allan Pinkerton, 54, horseracer, poloist, Long Island socialite, president oi Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; as the result of mustard-gassing in the War; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. Pinkerton's first got fame before the Civil War when Allan Pinkerton, a bluff Scotch cooper, unearthed & pre-vented a plot to assassinate Lincoln on the way to his first inauguration. That Allan Pinkerton formed for Lincoln the first national secret service. Since then, three Pinkertons have headed the agency, made it largest in the world. Possible next president: Robert Allan Pinkerton (just out of Harvard...
Married. Margaret Helen Phipps, granddaughter of late Steelman Philanthropist Henry Phipps (died two weeks ago), cousin of Poloist Winston Guest, niece of Socialite Mrs. Bradley Martin; and J. Gordon Douglas Jr., son of Mrs. Graf ton Winthrop Minot of New York; at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City...
Married. Eleanor Steele, operatic soprano, prima donna last year of Brooklyn's Little Theatre Opera Company, daughter of Morgan Partner Charles Steele, sister of the wife of retired Poloist Devereux Milburn of Westbury, L. I.; and Hall Clovis, operatic tenor, singer of leading roles for two years with Little Theatre opera; in Chicago. Mrs. Clovis has had two previous husbands: Count Jean de la Greze of Paris (divorced), Dr. Louis Debonnesset of Paris (died...
Died. John George Milburn, 78, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Stock Exchange, onetime defender of trusts (old Standard Oil, Union Pacific R.R.), president of Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition (1901), father of famed Poloist Devereux Milburn; three weeks after the death of his wife, Mary Stocking Milburn; in London. When President McKinley was shot by Assassin Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo on Sept. 6, 1901, it was to the Milburn home that he was carried, there that he died one week later...
...Promoter Hollins. No hole-in-one could have pleased her as much as the $1,500,000 testimony to her foresight and salesmanship. According to current stories, the first move she made after receiving the money was to give $50,000 of it away, $25,000 going to Poloist Eric Pedley, $25,000 to another woman. No charity, these gifts were the result of a "sportsman's agreement" two years ago that the first of the three to make $1,000,000 would give each of the others...