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In a Gulf hurricane was wrecked the yacht Wild Duck, floating clubhouse of the Sabine Pilots' Association. The Wild Duck was once the pleasure craft of Andrew William Mellon. She carried Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. on their honeymoon. In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II...
Six months ago Jerome Dunstan ("Jerry") Travers, U. S. amateur golf champion in 1907, 1908, 1912, 1913, U. S. open champion in 1915, sold his seat on the New York Cotton Exchange. With more time for golf, he found his game almost as good as of old, when he was...
The late famed William Travers Jerome, crusading district attorney of Manhattan, tried his hardest to prove that the notorious colonel's faith in human nature was limited to his creditors; in short, that he was an extortionist. But victims of extortion are rarely willing to testify that they bought silence...
Old, perhaps as old as the Press itself, is the foregoing strategy, known in its cruder manifestations as the "we boys" racket ("We boys on the staff want to give you the breaks. . . ."). Twenty-five years ago William Travers Jerome, famed crusading District Attorney of New York, tried unsuccessfully to...
The Belmont Stakes, not so thoroughly publicized as the Kentucky Derby, attracts a smaller and proportionately more socialite crowd, is worth more ($58,770) to the winner. The race was run on a hot sunny afternoon, with Twenty Grand the favorite, Jamestown a second choice at even money. The horses...