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When Sportsman Alain Gerbault (swimmer, poloist, tennis player, footballer, war ace) thought of going around the world,* he wanted to go alone, bought an English decked cutter, the Firecrest (39 feet, built in 1892), and put out of Havre across the Atlantic. That was in June, 1924. In The Fight of the Firecrest Sailor Gerbault gave the log of his 101-day voyage to Manhattan. In Quest of the Sun takes up the tale from there, tells how he completed his voyage round the earth...
visiting in Carmel Valley, Calif., taught socialites how to fly a glider. Among his pupils: J. Cheever Cowdin, poloist. Also seen fiddling with a glider's controls (but not gliding): Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor...
Married. William Averill Harriman, 38, active son of a super-active father (the late great railroader Edward Henry Harriman), Long Island poloist and socialite, head of W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc., recently divorced; and Marie Norton Whitney, 26, mother of two, who last September divorced Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, financier-sportsman son of financier-sportsman Harry Payne Whitney; in Manhattan. The couple sailed immediately on the Bremen for a honeymoon in Southern France...
Peggy was soon making $700 a week, had her own maid and car. Socialite Sonny Whitney. Poloist Tommy Hitchcock, were her good friends (she says). In Chicago Stanley Joyce came into her life. Her marriage with Joyce taught her the last refinements of her peculiar talent: how to spend money. Perhaps that is why, in all her subsequent vicissitudes, she has gratefully kept his name. One week in Manhattan she spent nearly a million dollars. Just shopping. He bought her a house in Coral Gables, Miami, and the neighbors complained of the stink from her monkey house. Said Peggy...
Died. Edward Motley Weld, 57, socialite, poloist, onetime (1921) president of the New York Cotton Exchange; in Manhattan; of heart disease. He played on the Dedham (Mass.) polo team, U. S. champions in 1900. With the late Temple Gwathmey, he ran a racing stable under the name of "Mr. Cotton...