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Died. Chester Alan Arthur, 73, sportsman and art collector, eldest son and namesake of the 21st U. S. President; of a. heart attack; in Colorado Springs, Colo...
Before he died he had given his son Joseph $1,000,000 as a Harvard graduation present (1891), seen him almost corner the U. S. wheat market and lose $9,750,000 (1898), become a famed horse racer and sportsman. He had seen his daughter Mary wed a Britisher who became Lord Curzon, and Viceroy of India. He had seen his daughter Marguerite marry another English title, become the Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire, and his daughter Nancy pick as her second husband Lieutenant Colonel Colin Powys Campbell of the British Army...
...Gropper picture is a sombre scene in deep yellows. Armed men and dogs are coursing through a scrubby thicket under a hill. The grim haste of the figures plainly implies that The Hunt's quarry is Man. Explained Artist Gropper: "I felt the irony of the hunt-the sportsman's equal pleasure in hunting game and hunting Negroes-and I decided to commit it to paint...
Indiana's sportsman Governor, Cliff Townsend, had a little airedale pup, which would put Kansas' climbing coon hound Rudd [TIME, April 12] to shame...
...politician but a shrewd and imposing merchant is 46-year-old Aaron Frank. Oregon's richest sportsman, he is chairman for the Pacific Northwest of the Amateur Athletic Union's executive committee, is said to plan a great athletic pavilion as his monument in Portland. Mainspring in the Meier & Frank business since Uncle Julius moved to the State House in 1930, Aaron Frank has watched his store's sales shrink from $18,510,061 in the fiscal year of 1928 to $11,276,077 in 1934 and swell again to $16,555,952 in 1936. When Aaron...