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...must concentrate, dear," purred a U. S. woman spectator to freckled, 18-year-old Patricia Jane ("Patty") Berg last week as they strode down a fairway of the seaside golf course at Southport, England. "I am concentrating hard," tearfully replied U. S. Golfer Berg, "but nothing happens." In spite of concentration, by the 18th hole Patty had missed five putts of less than five feet, lost her second-round match to Elsie Corlett of Lancashire. Other favorites fell even more quickly than Patty, whom British bookmakers had backed as the No. 1 U. S. entrant in the Women...
George Oliver May is a plump, urbane, British-born gentleman who winters in Manhattan and summers in Southport, Conn., collects old English silver, dislikes publicity, has a daughter married to Barron Collier Jr. and is one of the world's foremost authorities on corporate finance and taxation. In Manhattan last week Mr. May attended a dinner celebrating his silver jubilee as senior partner of the potent accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. In Washington last week Mr. May, who was a Wartime adviser at the Treasury Department, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee as a disinterested citizen, presented...
...Southport's Taylor. For a socialite young woman to take up sculpture as a diversion has been traditional since Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney first started modeling. For a socialite young woman to become a good sculptor is definitely news. Such news broke last week when Mrs. Wynne Byard Taylor gave her first one-man show at the Georgette Passedoit Gallery. Critics who had never heard of her before were charmed by a number of figures in mahogany, walnut, bronze, pottery, modeled with sure fingers and considerable masculine purpose. In particular they inspected approvingly a leering bronze faun with the shoulders...
...Taylor is the daughter of famed children's specialist, Dr. Dever S. Byard. After studying at Barnard College for two years, she preferred sculpture to a formal debut, worked under Antoine Bourdelle and Archipenko. Her husband, Engineer Edward Taylor, has also a doctor father. They live quietly in Southport, Conn, with their two children who are seldom sick. Like most serious artists who do not need to sell their works to live Sculptor Taylor has no eye for publicity. The day before her exhibit opened she dumped a truckload of statuary at the gallery door, hurried back...
...thing everybody expected from the Labor Party last week when it opened its annual conference in Southport was that it was finally going to uncork its long-bottled plan of giving England Socialism and no more fooling. The only question was: just how strong a Socialist dose was the Party going to offer...