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Brissac's sartorial brilliance was all due to the will of the late Rufus Barlow. Born in New Canaan, Conn, many years ago, wiry little Rufus Barlow became a jockey, then a horse trainer, finally a bookmaker. One or another of his positions took him to Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, China and India before he reached France as trainer for the great Gautier racing stables at Bordeaux. His hobby was to collect costumes from each country he visited...
Tired of the track, Rufus Barlow retired 15 years ago, bought a little farm at Brissac. To one thing he could never grow accustomed. Spending all his life in the company of wealthy and generous sports- men, the closefisted money grubbing of French peasants infuriated him. It was his boast that there was no indignity that a French peasant would not accept for $100. Dying, he proceeded to prove...
...Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns." When he visited the World's Fair last week, to his and its immense delight he got his salute. Fair President Rufus Dawes had soldiers drawn up along Michigan Avenue and marched with the Gaekwar in pomp befitting the Fair's first visiting chief-of- state...
University of Southern California's President Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid returned from a visit to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doom, Holland, said that the ex-Kaiser urged all German-Americans to cooperate with President Roosevelt's recovery program...
...gathering data on cosmic and ultraviolet rays. A major-general had the honor of starting the hydrogen gas hissing into the acre of white rubberized bag-biggest ever built. An admiral saw to the hooking on of the spherical gondola made of metal ⅛-in. thick. Mrs. Rufus Cutler Dawes, wife of the president of the Fair, dashed a bottle of liquid air on the gondola, christened it Century of Progress. Colors were piped. Bands blared "Anchors Aweigh." Commander Settle climbed into the gondola, waved, sealed himself in, and was off into the moonlit sky. Searchlights fingered the balloon...