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William S. Hart, hard-riding hero of the silent horse operas, who last month gave $50,000 for a park and museum in Hollywood, shelled out another $100,000-to the Connecticut Humane Society for a memorial to his sister: a shelter for stray dogs and cats in Westport, Conn...
...location of every free lunch counter. One of his good friends was John Butler Yeats, the painter, father of William Butler Yeats. The old man lectured to him on the value of idleness, painted a fine portrait of him that now hangs over the fireplace of his house in Westport, and told him the one most important thing he had learned in life: "How good people are." In 1911, in Carmel, Calif., he married charming Eleanor Kenyon, who bore him two sons (one is now a naval lieutenant...
...straight as an old soldier, somewhat resembles one in his severely simple working life and the spare common sense of his words. With the earnings of The Flowering of New England he built a square white brick house on the top of an isolated hill four miles from Westport, Conn. It has high ceilings, soft-toned walls, many windows, large rooms, a view of the Sound, books, comfortable chairs and the pictures collected by a writer who, liking artists, says "they are just like writers without the nonsense...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, back from his tour of the South Pacific, rented an 18-room, brick and timber house in Greens Farms, Conn., a quiet section of Westport, convenient to the four United Aircraft Corp. plants where he works as a consulting engineer. The house, on 14 acres of land, faces a road, is only 200 yards from his nearest neighbor...
Vivien Kellems, Westport, Conn, cable-grip manufacturer, in a speech to a Kansas City civic group, invited manufacturers to a "Westport tea party" - to form postwar reserves for their industries by putting aside money from their Federal income taxes. "Put on your Indian paint and feathers and join me," cried the 48-year-old, youthful, minister's daughter. "I owe it to my country ... to help rectify this horrible mistake which will most certainly carry us right into the abyss of Communism." Cited as U.S. industry's leading lady (by the National Association of Manufacturers...