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Although Mr. Jones is often in the West, buying royalties and championing the cause of an oil tariff, he lives in Scarsdale, N. Y., golfs at Westchester Country Club, surf-swims at the Lido on Long Island. His first name remains in the nature of a trade secret. At the University of Kansas soda-jerking J. Edward Jones was simply "Blondie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Royalty | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore leg that morning. Twenty Grand, coupled in the betting with Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh, was the favorite. A. C. Bostwick's Mate, the Preakness winner, was second choice and the rest of the dozen starters were at lengthening odds to the field horses and one absurd long shot, Prince D'Amour, at more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kentucky Derby | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Marshall Field III and his bride of two months (former Mrs. Dudley Coats of London), honeymooning through Africa in an amphibian airplane which crashed in the surf at Sidi Barrani on its way to them three weeks ago, crashed last week 850 mi. south of Khartoun en route to Kenya Colony. All escaped injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Rolling in the grey North Atlantic swell, His Majesty's sloop Harebell and the steamer Dunara Castle lay off the bleak precipitous island of St. Kilda last week. Plunging out through the surf. Royal Navy lifeboats carried to the Harebell 35 passengers, the entire population of St. Kilda, which the Harebell's precise commander reported thus: Men, able bodied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: St. Kilda | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

Kerr Eby prefers to wander amid wild marshes, fish in the surf. He was born in Tokyo of U. S. parents. He lives in Manhattan and Westport, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Etching v. British | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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