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...days later, wearing his usual "jampot" collar, Donor Hales bustled back to the Normandie with many a shipping bigwig for a handsome luncheon and ceremony. Sutherland, as chairman of the Transatlantic Blue Ribbon Committee, took charge of the actual presentation, handing the huge globule over to bulky Captain Rene Pugnet of the Normandie along with a speech reciting the history of transatlantic crossings since 1492. Then Donor Hales clambered jovially to his feet, gave the speech he always gives, which usually begins: "The Haleses never amounted to much before...
...transatlantic voyage. Four days, one hour later, she churned past Plymouth England, in heavy seas which prevented her from calling at that port but did not prevent her from setting a new record for the crossing, some six hours better than her previous time. Heading on to Havre Commandant Rene Pugnet and his crew were prouder than ever of holding the Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic in fact, if not on shipboard. Still secure in Italian hands is the actual trophy, to remain so for some six weeks more, as prescribed by Donor Harold Hales. Then, when the three months...
Fencing finds a new home at Harvard and in Cambridge when on Tuesday, October 1, Rene Peroy, University coach, opens his Salle d'Armes on Mt. Auburn Stret...
Married, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval, 23, daughter of France's peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineto de Chambrun, 28, nephew of the late great Nicholas Longworth, longtime Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Paris...
...years ago he bought a Belgian middleweight prizefighter named Rene DeVos, introduced him to U. S. pugilism at a smart hotel party. Plug-ugly guests disappeared with quantities of silverware and fine wine, did their best to make off with a piano. In 1929 he and some associates plopped a swank Casino in the middle of Manhattan's Central Park. Accommodated with a modest rental by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker, the Casino has been under fire almost ever since for its undemocratic prices, its oversized profits...