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Like the least of his subjects, George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, must obey even laws which to a gentle man and a sportsman seem pettifogging and absurd...
Lawless, the newly-formed London Gourmets Club ate plovers' eggs at their second banquet, fortnight ago, washed this typical sportsman's delicacy down with Château d'Yquem 1870 from the cellars of Eugenie, late ill-fated Empress of the French. After the dinner Charles Stambois, secretary of the club explained that "our plovers' eggs were not illegal because they were a gift," an excuse which the royal comptroller showed last week to be invalid. Nevertheless the board of agriculture, lax, had not up to last week taken steps against the Gourmets club...
Dynamic, warm, lavish, Byoir is an instinctive mixer. Mornings he may be found in the patio of the Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore, habitually hatless, armed with a malacca stick, buttonholing or being buttonholed by this statesman, that sportsman. Afternoons find him on the sands of La Playa beach; midnight, in the two-story structure at Industria 77, erstwhile Casa Publica, now the plant of the Post and Telegram...
Engaged. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 24, sportsman son of the late Sportsman Payne Whitney; and Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Dobson Altemus Eastman. Marriage date: early in September...
...founder of the house, and four still share one common office, sometimes called the world's copper capital. Here is the venerable Simon, now president of American Smelting & Refining Co.; Daniel, the philanthropist; Murry, the shrewdest financial mind of the four and an expert on copper prices; Solomon, sportsman, cosmopolite, a specialist in metallurgical