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These were: Miss Eleanor Post Close Hutton, granddaughter of the late Charles W. ("Postum") Post, Manhattan; Mrs. John North Willys (Whippet & Willys-Knight), Toledo, Ohio; Miss Mary Stevens Hammond (daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Spain), Bernardsville, N. J.; Miss Anne Gordon Colby, daughter of ex-Senator and Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, N. J.; Miss Anne Washington Ferine, lineal descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta...
...President Edward G. Wilmer of Dodge Bros, spent more than $67,000 to hire Will Rogers, Fred & Dorothy Stone and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra to entertain over the radio and incidentally to announce Dodge Bros.' new 6-cylinder model, the Victory Six. John North Willys cut prices on all Whippet models and priced one, a sport coupe, at $545, which is $5 less than the price of the corresponding Ford model. And William Crapo Durant made the prices of his 4-cylinder Star match those of the Ford...
Dodge 875. Whippet...
Coupe-4-cyl. FORD CHEVROLET 52 CHRYSLER WHIPPET STAR STAR $550 $625 $870 $755 steel Fisher Hayes-Hunt steel pyroxylin Duco Duco paint steel spoke steel disc wood wood 4 2 2 4 balloon balloon balloon balloon 104" 103" 106" 101 H" Triplex plate plate plate hydraulic none none Gabriel...
...five spring afternoons of his five races; victories all, in which he won $43,000 for owners who had bought him for less than a quarter of that amount, valued him at more than twice that amount. There would be the Overnight at Jamaica, a debut won as a whippet would win from airdales, the Keene Memorial and the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont, two races at Aqueduct-five golden afternoons, all full of sunshine and moving figures, the smell of grass and leather, the sound of cheers and hurrying hoofs...