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...racing for the America's Cup has been a bitter and disappointing experience to British challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, the past summer has proved even more distressing to his partner in the aircraft business: bluff, sixtyish Frederick Sigrist. After building the yacht Endeavour II for his second Cup challenge, Mr. Sopwith prevailed upon Mr. Sigrist to charter his previous challenger, Endeavour I, from its new owner, Commodore H. A. Andreae of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, help him bear the expense of taking both boats to the U. S. as alternative challengers. En route, Endeavour I slipped...
Mostly grey, simple and sixtyish...
Engaged. Lorenz Iversen, sixtyish, Danish-born president of Pittsburgh's moneymaking Mesta Machine Co. (TIME, March 4), widower, father of five; and one Fleda Foust, fortyish, of Pittsburgh...
...forging press. Not only can he sell his steelmaking machines to ordinary prospects. At least once he sold a buyer who had already let the contract to a competitor. He still speaks with a strong accent and lives in Pittsburgh's safe and solid East End. Sixtyish and no socialite, he is fanatic on the subject of personal publicity, has never permitted a photographer to enter his home or office. Perhaps the only picture of Lorenz Iversen in existence is one snapped at a gay, informal supper party at Pittsburgh's University Club, which he lately joined...
...Author. Daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman (Clayton Glyn, J. P.), sister of a onetime London-Manhattan modiste (Lady Duff-Gordon), sixtyish, still handsome, Elinor Glyn has always exuded a faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when...