Word: fahnestocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were thinking, too, of handsome, social Ruth Fahnestock Schermerhorn, who left home and husband later the same year for Reno. She married De Marigny the day her divorce was granted. The De Marignys went to Nassau, where her money and his ingenuity launched them in promising business ventures. When the war came the De Marignys were divorced one day in Miami to evade British wartime monetary restrictions, but continued to share the same post-office box and telephone number in Nassau. It was there that Nancy first saw the Count, first knew he had noticed her. Later he came...
Thomas Theodore Hoffman, Alexander Louis Jackson, 3d., John Pressly Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Robert Fulton Kurtz, Elliott Charles Lasser, Truman Saul Licht, Russell Frank Locke, Jr., James Logan, Jr., Henry Hixon Meyer, Jr., Clarence Fahnestock Michalis, Ernest Albert Mitchell, John Acton Morgan, Roland Ernest Mueser, Sean Buller Murphy, Henry Norris Platt, Jr., Alfred Howard Renshaw, Walter Barnwell Saunders, Dorraine Ward Slingerland, William Edward Smith, Arthur Sumner Tarlow, Richard Lawrence Wechsler, Edward Tubbs Wentworth, Jh., Walter Chadbourne Wilson, Jr., Benjamin Tappan Wright...
Married. Nancy Oakes, 17, daughter of Sir Harry Oakes, Canadian multimillionaire (gold mines); and sugar-wealthy Count Alfred de Marigny, 31; he for the second time. Place of the wedding was kept secret. His first wife was Ruth Fahnestock, Manhattan banker's daughter...
...Most sophisticated and euphonious of the Fahnestock records are those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting...
...Caledonia the Brothers Fahnestock spent a day getting ready to record songs by a particularly promising pair of natives. Finally the natives sang their piece: Oo-Wah, Oo-Wah, over & over. That was all they knew...