Word: sportsmans
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...good fortune was only beginning. Chardon made her a star. To surround her with glamour, he let it be known that she had been the mistress of Camilo el Durqui, Argentine sportsman, who supposedly had been lost on a transatlantic flight-the same eccentric, grocery-delivering millionaire. As Coralee rose to fame on this hoax-"all Paris twittered over her aura of mystery"-Camilo el Durqui returned, uninjured but angry...
...Crooner Bing Crosby whose next picture will be about racing flew in from Hollywood. So did John Hay Whitney who missed the opening day's races for the first time in years. Governor and Mrs. Herbert Lehman motored from Albany the fourth day of the meet. Sportsman F. Ambrose Clark, who spends the night at his Saratoga cottage only when it rains, commuted by plane from Cooperstown. In the crowd that saw Al Vanderbilt's Postage Due win the United States Hotel Stakes were New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Producer George White, Sportsman Joseph...
...necessarily would the King for whom so many hurrahs were shouted last week be Greece's deposed George II ("Gorgeous Georgios") who lives in London the life of a sportsman-about-town and insists "I have never abdicated. Mark my words, I shall again be King of the Greeks." Many Greeks would prefer to see British George V's youngest son, the Duke of Kent, invited by the Athenian Parliament to become King Georgios III, his wife Marina being that most popular of Greek royalties. Thus last week Marina's Cousin Georgios II had need of what...
...that it wasn't much worse than the recent whiskey advertisement in which that old sportsman was telling how he knew good whiskey because he knew good hunters and good hounds-and the hound, if you please, was an Irish setter...
...Clothiers and the Strawbridges who, as sons of the founders, own most of the stock, carry on family traditions. Morris Lewis Clothier is chairman of the board, a benefactor of the Quaker colleges Swarthmore and Haverford. His brother, Isaac H. Clothier, vice president, is famed as a sportsman and horse fancier. (Their cousin, Robert C. Clothier, who did not go into the store, is president of Rutgers University.) Of the three living sons of Founder Strawbridge only one, Robert, is active as vice president. His brother Francis, a director, retired from active business some years ago as did jovial, sandy...