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...banking. He was a fine, widely known sportsman. In 1906 he won the national amateur golf championship. For years he kept a box at Forbes (baseball) Field, Pittsburgh. In England and the U.S. he had racing stables. He won trophies at trap shooting. He maintained homes at Pittsburgh, Southampton, L.I., and Aiken, S.C., often visited Palm Beach...
...Princeton (1917) "Turck" Cohu roomed for four years with his brother Henry Wallace ("Wally"). He was intercollegiate light-heavyweight wrestling champion. Today his weight is exactly the same-175 Ib.-and he still likes to wrestle at the New York Athletic Club. Also he plays good golf at Southampton, L. I. with his friend Publisher Wilfred John Funk. More than golf or wrestling he likes chess. He is rarely seen without a pipe between his teeth...
Because his wife, the former Didi H. Muus, is Norwegian, Mr. Cohu built for her at Southampton a summer home like a Norwegian mountain house. A Norwegian architect designed it, Norwegian craftsmen were imported to make the wood carvings. Mrs. Cohu named the house Gissa Bu. Her husband, who has never been to Norway, says he does not know what Gissa Bu means...
...three years ago Marie, current best-selling Russian Grand Duchess, had a son. Eighteen years ago she parted with him when her marriage to his father was dissolved by the Swedish State Council and by decree of Tsar Nicholas II. Last week mother and son were reunited.- Landing at Southampton from the Europa, Marie cried happily: "I've come over to hear wedding bells!" In her arms she clasped Gustav Lennart Nicholas Paul Bernadotte, a Swedish Prince who has renounced his royal rights to marry a Swedish commoner, Froken Karin Nissvandt...
...Butler's is New York's ultimate accolade to distinguished visitors. Chatelaine of No. 60 is Dr. Butler's second wife, Kate La Montagne. She is unobtrusively busy when dignitaries are around. Every March Dr. Butler goes to Brunswick, Ga., every June to Europe, every July to Southampton for the rest of the summer...