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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appropriate was it that Mrs. Rice's most prized possession should go to Philadelphia. From Philadelphians she inherited two fortunes, totaling some $60,000,000-one from her father, Oilman William L. Elkins, the other from her first husband, George D. Widener, who with her elder son went down with the Titanic in 1912. In memory of her son she gave the Widener Memorial Library to Harvard. At its dedication in 1915 she met Explorer Rice, himself a millionaire. Four months later they were married...
...lantern-lighted hole full of the din of drilling, sketches everything he sees. Mining engineers admire his sombre, accurate pictures, in 1936 invited him to join the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Last week laymen too had their chance to admire, for Artist Hoffman's first show since 1935 opened in Manhattan at the Associated American Artists' Galleries. One admirer: Mining Engineer Herbert Hoover...
When Artist Hoffman dislikes one of his pictures, he paints another over it. Failures lurk behind most of his canvases. Thus hidden is the painting that first brought him fame-Rubbish, which showed a derelict sitting next to an ashcan. "When I do a bad thing," he says, "I want to be the first one to know about it and the first one to destroy it. I can paint, I know I can paint...
Born. To Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 20, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000), and Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 25, tin-plate heir ($9,000,000); their first child, a daughter: Sandra Emerson, tin-Bromo heiress...
Born. To Prince Alexis Obolensky II, 25, Manhattan cafe socialite, Russian nobleman once removed, and Princess Obolensky (Jane Wheeler Irby), 23, New Orleans socialite: their first child, a daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: Ann. Weight...