Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aged (81), eccentric New York Lawyer Samuel Untermyer had the gardener on his Yonkers estate rig up an ingenious apparatus to infuse his honeydew and casaba melons with benedictine, port, and brandy while they are still on the hot-house vine, hopes to sample the non-intoxicating but liquor-flavored fruit next month...
...public notice column of the New York Herald Tribune appeared three lines: "I am no longer responsible for any debts incurred by my wife. . . ." It was signed by Franklin Laws Hutton, father of Woolworth Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, concerned his second wife, Irene Curley Bodde Hutton. Meanwhile, back to the U. S. for a home-made divorce came Daughter Barbara and her son Lance, whose ship companions included legally separated Husband Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and Barbara's rumored choice for a third husband, Robert Sweeny, amateur golfer & investment broker. On the dock Countess Barbara was greeted...
Toothy, swagger-minded Grover Whalen, president of New York's World's Fair, in Europe on a busman's holiday, attended the Swiss National Exposition...
Against the feared ravages of war, most of Europe's great art collections have gone into hiding. At the New York and San Francisco Fairs, however, many a masterpiece from Europe has safely stayed on display. With both fairs about to close, these foreign art exhibits last week had to seek other shelter...
Assembler of the Masterpieces of Art exhibit at the New York World's Fair was tall, resourceful Director Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner of the Detroit Institute of Arts. To Detroit, appropriately, will be shipped next month 42 of the 45 paintings Dr. Valentiner borrowed abroad. If World War II continues, they will later tour other U. S. museums which are willing to underwrite their $2,500,000 insurance...