Word: tarrytowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into North Tarrytown, N.Y. at the tiller of his 1902 Anderson electric, rolled John D. Rockefeller Jr., to dedicate 17th-Century Phillipse Manor House as a colonial memorial (he gave $300,000 for its reconstruction). Next to him sat Mrs. Rockefeller; following in a buckboard were Daughter-in-law Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and three of her five. The procession wound up with matched Percherons drawing three wagonloads of Pocantico Hills residents. Said Restorer Rockefeller: "To me this has . . . been ... a labor of love ... in the interest of my neighbors and friends in the Tarrytowns, among whom I have lived...
Charles T. Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting, with Joseph Mariano, flutist; Victor). Griffes was a music teacher at the Hackley School for Boys in Tarrytown, N.Y. Since he died in 1920, at the age of 35, critics have rated his small, carefully tooled output among the finest U.S. compositions. His Poem is fragile and impressionistic and is certainly one of his best works...
...Duchesse de Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, daughter of the late Financier Jay Gould, made one of the buildings on her estate in Tarrytown, N.Y. a guesthouse for sailors on leave. The Navy announced that the chosen sailors "lounge on luxurious chairs, eat off an old Italian table brought from a monastery, walk on Oriental rugs, store their clothes in huge old French armoires. ... A butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants cater to every wish. . . . Meals are served at every hour...
...Tarrytown, N.Y., across the road from the Duchesse de Talleyrand (Anna Gould), favorite followers and guests of Father Divine sat down with the boss to do a little house-warming in their newest 21-room "heaven." They started eating at 2 p.m., ate their way through 161 separate dishes (including 36 kinds of meat, 15 desserts), wiped their chins...
Down into his fabulous cashless pocket dug the brown hand of shrewd Negro Cultist Major J. ("Father") Divine, and bought a new "heaven": the $500,000, 21-room Tudor mansion once the property of Manhattan Realtor Leo S. Bing, in wealthy Tarrytown, N. Y. Assessed at $169,000, last sold for $27,000, Divine got it for $36,000, will enjoy as one of his nearest neighbors the Duchesse de Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, who was reported "pretty angry...