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...pretty taste in whiskey and a deft hand at intrigue, which won him his Whitehall nickname of "Machiavelli-and-soda." Sir Robert's usual professional touch was evident last week when Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, discovered that his wife must pass a little time in England for her health, and so invited her sister Lady Vansittart to Berlin to be his Embassy hostess during the Olympic Games. With the innocence of a fox in lamb's clothing, Sir Robert then simply went along with his charmingly social wife to Berlin "for entirely personal reasons...
...Generous to the last in loaning drawings from his own collection, "Hen Opp" died in 1932. Proceeds of last week's sale, occasioned by the death of Oppenheimer's widow, are estimated to be twice the amount the collector originally paid, will go to Sons Paul and Eric, less Christie...
Last week Hughes scored the first goal of what British experts later called the most exciting polo game ever played on British soil. Thereafter, the U. S.'s lanky back, Winston Guest, kept Hughes bottled up, while Stewart Iglehart and Michael Phipps fed the ball to Eric Pedley at No. 1. In the last chukker, with the score 7-to-6 for the U. S., Hurlingham's packed stands prayed for a tying goal. Instead, Pedley nursed the ball through England's goal posts. Two minutes later chukker, game and series ended...
...learning to play like U. S. poloists, England's poloists have at least been practical. Two of their ablest Internationalists, Eric Tyrrell-Martin and Gerald Balding, have spent large portions of the last three years at Meadow Brook, Palm Beach and Del Monte. Poloist Balding learned his lesson so well that last year his handicap was raised to nine, only one less than famed Tommy Hitchcock, the world's only 10-goal player. Recalled to Hurlingham, Balding became with Tyrrell-Martin the nucleus of the British team. Last week, with Captain Humphrey Guinness behind Tyrrell-Martin at back...
...onetime Ambassador to Cuba; Mr. and Mrs. F. Shepard Cornell, Manhattan socialites; Lord Addington of England; Baroness de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris; Dr. J. E. W. Duys of The Netherlands Parliament; Carl Vrooman, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Bernard Hallward, director of the Montreal Star; Herman Hintzen, Rotterdam banker; Eric Bentley, Canadian businessman; W. Farrar Vickers, British businessman; Sir Philip Dundas,of Edinburgh. Likewise present were the usual Oxford Group retired generals, admirals, sons and daughters of Anglican bishops, Scandinavian lawyers, reformed Communists, college students...