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...worshiped his first wife Marie-Henrie blindly, and when she died he blundered into marriage with Olivia Slocum, a blueblooded schoolmistress whose father he had ruined. He spent the rest of his life taunting Olivia with memories of Marie-Henrie. Olivia liked dogs; Sage acquired cats (which Marie-Henrie loved and he detested). Olivia wanted Sage to decorate their house with works of art; Sage hung photographs of locomotives and maps of his railroad holdings. Olivia liked Oriental rugs and bric-a-brac; Sage littered the parlor with buffalo robes. But Olivia got even. When Sage died in 1906, leaving...
...young lady's debut is merely the beginning, and nobody knows it better than Manhattan's Multi-Cotillionairess Marguerite Slocum, 18. Since her official launching on the bubbly high seas of society last August at a Newport ball for 700, Marguerite has been presented at the Tuxedo Autumn Ball, the Grosvenor, the First Junior Assembly, is yet to be introduced at the Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, the Second Junior Assembly and the International Ball. Fed to the décolletage with the standard dress for such affairs, Maverick Marguerite set Manhattan lorgnettes snapping when she appeared...
Died. Harvey Slocum, 75. tough-talking U.S. engineer who bossed the construction of India's giant (740 ft. high) and all-but-completed Bhakra Dam, a self-educated ex-laborer who helped build Hoover and Grand Coulee dams and whose overriding ego-he called himself "the best damn dam builder in the world" -was matched only by his professional skill; of a heart attack; in Nangal, India...
...nature seemed to turn against Nehru; floodwaters swept down on the powerhouse of Bhakra Dam, showpiece of India's economic-development program, whose 740-ft. wall, when completed, will make it one of the world's highest. As they sought to stave off ruin, U.S. Builder Harvey Slocum and Indian engineers blamed each other for the catastrophe...
...Asia, Ambassador to Ceylon (1953-56), lately Secretary Dulles' special assistant for confidential press relations (policy guidance, planned news leaks). Crowe's successor as briefing officer: Pennsylvania Banker William Warren Scranton, 41, civic leader, whose ancestors gave their name to the Pennsylvania industrial city of Scranton, formerly Slocum Hollow...