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...thrilled as she. Selected to lead a reception committee up the yacht's gangplank, Mrs. Jessie Byron, daughter of Florida's Governor Frederick Preston Cone, gasped: "No. 1, dear me, I can't stand it." She faded back into second place and let Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat and cap with feathered mercury wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Duchess' Tooth | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...many things happened in London one day recently. But for him, Gladys, the stenographer, could not have met Mr. Johnson, and the Paddington Murder Case would have remained unsolved. But for David, Lord Midhurst would not have escaped from Mr. Fink's clutches. Lady Hermia Medmenham, Mr. and Mrs. Rivington, Mr. Gawthorne (the author has a genius for names), and scores of other people would have gone on in a very pleasant rut,--but for David...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/12/1932 | See Source »

...Willoughby Craig) and Socialites like Mrs. Walter A. Burke, Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. By the time the Museum opened last week, several non-Hibernian names often connected with Culture in New York had been added to the list of sponsors and patrons-Otto Hermann Kahn, William Ziegler, Percy Rivington Pyne Jr., Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr. and Jr., Publisher Condé Nast's daughter Natica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ireland in New York | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...lost a charming friend who could not be replaced. The range of his friendships was reflected in the long list of honorary pallbearers, including William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., Joseph Leiter and Efrem Zimbalist, Will Rogers and Clarence Mackay, Albert Lasker and Percy Rivington Pyne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Death of a Speaker | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...weeks thereof, were among the most exciting and satisfactory he had ever known. His company this evening were of the most distinguished. The list next morning in the newspapers would begin "Former President & Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Owen D. Young. . . ." And among the stags were Vincent Astor, Percy Rivington Pyne II, Charles E. Mitchell, Charles Hayden, William Rhinelander Stewart. It was a housewarming party to install Mrs. Hearst in the old Belmont estate at Sands Point, L. I., which Mr. Hearst bought several years ago. Soon he would be off again to his 30,000-acre suzerainty in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Heyday | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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