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Among the private collections drawn upon, notable were those of : Mrs. Rockefeller, whose U. S. primitives supplied such beauties as Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee...
Three years ago Colonel Tim McCoy of cinema and circus fame went to Providence, R. I. as a headliner in Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus. There he met Benjamin Ladd Cook, amateur sportsman, former M. F. H.. and 30-year associate in Hornblower & Weeks. The two men discussed circuses and horses, and McCoy wound up by saying that what the U. S. needed was an honest-to-God wild west show. Last "authentic" wild west show. McCoy insisted, had been...
Divorced. Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; by Alice Busch Hager Preece, daughter of the late St. Louis Brewer August Anheuser Busch Sr.; in St. Louis. Grounds: cruelty. Two years ago Sportsman Preece was divorced from Lily Busch Magnus, his second wife's second cousin...
...African Hunter is little more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife (Isak Dinesen) for one incident, when she flew unarmed at two lions that had attacked...
...influenced art more than religion) had entered, beside his greyhound, a lemon & white pointer named Sensation, which his son had bought "for a bark" (actually $50) from a Rochester, N. Y. farmer. Though best of the pointers, Ch. Windholme Sensation lost in the sporting group to a mere pup, Sportsman Dwight Ellis' gay English setter, Daro of Maridor...