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...could not sail. Only 139 ships were loading or unloading cargo at New York's miles of docks. But there was a total of 567 ships in the port (v. a wartime peak of 486). Another 101 ships were anchored in the Hudson River as far north as Tarrytown...
...prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants-more than 5,000, valued at about $75,000-for the benefit of the Red Cross. In giving up the collection, which blooms in a two-block-long greenhouse on the Gould estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., the Duchess will save some 75 tons of coal for spring heating, can free nine gardeners for other work...
...Schoolmaster. Head of Duncan School was suave, thick-set William Callaway Duncan, 53, son of a onetime Georgia Senator. Educated at the University of Georgia, Columbia, Yale and Oxford, he made a name for himself! in 26 years (1914-40) as head of Irving Lower School in Tarrytown, N.Y., made many a prosperous acquaintance through a thriving summer camp which he started at Newport, Vt. in 1916. In 1940, with money left him by his aunt, he struck out for himself, opened an expensive school near New Milford, Conn. The building shortly burned down. Then he moved his school into...
...lawyer's career lightly. He had only one client, and neglected him. But he knew the old Dutch legends of the Hudson, cheerfully lampooned the Ten Eycks and Author Brooks's forebears the Van Wycks, hunted and fished through the farms and forests of Scarsdale and Tarrytown. He excelled at descriptive writing, became a model of English prose more popular than Addison...
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...