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...Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample of Author Bradford's method of writing dialect: "And Valivostop! Dat's whar us stopped at to load on some coal. Dey got some drinkin' licker made out'n rice and bramboo and stuff named vockster. And drunk you? I tuck jest two drinks and dey had to tote me on de ship in a sack...
Last week some vacationers packed into suitcases the worthy books they had no time to read last winter. But more were content merely to tuck under their arms a book or two of romantic light fiction that would serve to while away a train journey or fill in a rainy day. Of such aestive pretties, The Road to Nowhere and London Bridge is Falling are fair samples...
Married. John Jacob Astor 3rd, 21, son of Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte; and Ellen Tuck French, 18, daughter of Boston Insurance Agent Francis Ormond French and Mrs. Livingston French of Manhattan: in Newport, R. I. Notably present were Mrs. Fiermonte, Mr. William K. Dick, her second husband. Nazi Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. Clara Smith, Negro matron of the Newport Casino. Notably absent were Mr. Astor's halfbrother. Vincent Astor; his onetime Fiancee Eileen Gillespie; his stepfather. Prizefighter Fiermonte...
Engaged. Ellen Tuck French, 18, Manhattan socialite; and John Jacob Astor 3rd, 21, four months after the breaking of his engagement to Eileen S. S. Gillespie (TIME...
...lonely hill had become La Turbie, near Monte Carlo, where a rich Yankee expatriate spends his winters. Square-shouldered, withered little Edward Tuck, 92, went to Paris 70 years ago as Abraham Lincoln's vice consul and, except for a few early years of shuttling back & forth to the U. S., stayed on in France. He made his fortune as a private banker, built it up by investments in U. S. banks (Chase), railroads (Great Northern, Northern Pacific) and public utilities. He has given France a $5,000,000 art collection, a hospital, Napoleon's Park at Malmaison...