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...William Collins Whitney's fortune, organized the U. S. polo team that beat England in 1909, owned and sailed the America's Cup contender Vanitie (1910), in 1930 left the finest string of race horses in the U. S. to Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, his son by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Sonny Whitney, almost as horsy as his Cousin Jock, has extended his family's business interests by becoming an active director of Pan American Airways. Last autumn he tried to become swank Long Island's Congressman on the Democratic ticket, but was easily beaten...
Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia; at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes; in Dapierre, France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born...
...these prints are kept in a specially panelled room with false walls designed by his wife, an able amateur sculptress (TIME, Feb. 29). On ordinary occasions all that is visible are a few choice prints carefully framed. For favored friends each panel will swing back to show its reverse completely covered with Mr. Wiggin's favorites in narrow moldings, to expose shelves stacked high with hundreds of others...
Three years ago Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned no life-sized figures from Sculptress Hoffman to illustrate all the principal racial types of mankind for the museum's Chauncey Keep Hall of Living Man. Twenty-five of the figures will be full-length bronzes, the remainder heads and busts. With her husband. Violinist Samuel Bonarios Grimson as manager and chief photographer, and with a case full of notes and suggestions from British Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, 42-year...
...Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931), so limited themselves to Japan, China, the Philippines, the South Pacific. Seventy-five of the no statues have been completed. Only the primitive types of Siberia and South America remain undone. Chatting in the lounge room of S. S. Statendam last fortnight, Sculptress Hoffman told reporters some of her adventures...