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...deck of the Queen of Bermuda, three hours out of Hamilton bound" for Manhattan, a husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked...
...sooner had Stowaway Wainwright been turned over to his grandmother than police caught another boy slipping down the gangplank, found that he was William L. Hires, 16, nephew of Philadelphia's Charles E. Hires Jr. (Hires Root Beer). Stowaway Hires had made the round trip...
Divorced & Remarried. Mrs. Edith Gould Wainwright, 30, daughter of the late George Jay Gould; from Carroll Livingston Wainwright, 33, Manhattan socialite who was committed by his brothers to Bloomingdale Hospital last year, was later adjudged to be "mentally competent"; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty. Mrs. Wainwright immediately married Sir Hector Murray Macneal, 53, Scottish shipowner...
...Died. W. Evarardus Bogardus, 36; of infantile paralysis; in Manhattan. He was vice president of Bishop First National Bank of Honolulu for eleven years, returned to the U. S. last autumn, entered the insurance firm of Wainwright & Page, Inc. In October he married Mrs. Marie Louise Blair Hamilton, ex-wife of the late J. P. Morgan's grandson, Pierpont Morgan Hamilton...
...best were Gertrude Ederle, who swam the British channel Aug. 6, 1926 and is now instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in 1924 and 1928, is now married to Joseph Wright Jr., 1928 Diamond Sculls winner; Helen Wainwright who is giving diving exhibitions on the Berengaria's four-day tours; Aileen Riggin who toured Europe last winter and recently lost a job with Dobbs & Co., bankrupt haberdashers...