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...Career: Scion of well-to-do New England Quakers tracing their American lineage back to 1640, he, aged 2, was removed from his birthplace just off "upper sth Avenue" (21st Street) to Stamford, Conn. From private school he went to Yale (A.B. 1873) and Columbia (LL.B. 1876). After a brief clerkship in New York, he returned to Stamford to do legal work for Yale & Towne, famed locksmiths. Today he is Yale & Towne's board chairman. In 1879 he married Frances Hoyt who bore him two daughters, Louise and Katharine. In 1904 he dropped his corporation law practise long enough...
...plot revolves about three persons--the young Italian composer who likes to keep his audience waiting, and finds that temperament has serious after-effects; Jan. a harpist, a born trouper and a thoroughly amusing one; and Tad. scion of an old New York family, who behaves is the traditional manner of the reprobate sons whom we have grown to expect in American fiction. How the troupe travels the rocky road to Broadway, only to find the inevitable catastrophe awaiting them, and how the heroine appears at the end in a tent show somewhere in Georgia--all this is told nimbly...
Moreover it has long been known that Admiral Kato's favorite protege on the naval staff of which he is chief was Lieu-enant-Commander Yeiji Kusakari, scion of an old Samurai clan of deathless bravery, a highstrung man of 40, husband of a devoted wife, father of four. This officer last week engaged a berth at Kobe on the night express for Tokyo. Along toward dawn the conductor heard groans from his compartment, knocked diffidently, received no answer, debated for some time before he dared to unlock a staff officer's door...
...Dartmouth, Scion Chrysler collects first editions, keeps a spitz dog, drives a green Chrysler roadster...
Bashford Dean was born in New York in 1867. Scion of frugal Dutch and English ancestors who had lived in the vicinity of Riverdale-on-the-Hudson since the 17th Century, it was his good fortune never to want for money. His wealth was lucky for him, for no one has ever yet made a fortune from either of Bashford Dean's hobbies, ichthyology or armor...