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...Marble House," famed old Newport mansion of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, was bought by Frederick Henry-Prince, Boston banker, railroad tycoon, sportsman, owner of the racing yacht Weetamoe. "Marble House" was built in 1892, at a reputed cost of $8,000,000, as a birthday gift to Mrs. Belmont by her husband, the late William Kissam Vanderbilt, three years before she divorced him. It has been boarded up since...
...Said he: "A peasant I am, a peasant I shall die." He saw the humble Barbizon peasants pause in their work to pray at the sound of the Angelus bell. Back in his studio, he painted the picture from memory. He sold it for $120. A French department store tycoon named Chauchard paid $150,000 for it in 1910, bequeathed it to the Louvre...
President was still whole; that George Denver Guggenheim, 22, son of onetime U. S. Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, copper tycoon, was in town for pleasure, not to stimulate Montana's somnolent copper industry. The newshungry also learned by bulletin what they could about the results of the Olympic Games, the gist of President Hoover's acceptance speech, the trial of Mayor Walker...
Atlanta neighbors of Asa Griggs Candlet Jr., Coca-Cola tycoon, threatened to go to court unless he removed his private zoo from its present site, just within the stone wall at the public roadside, to a remote part of his estate. Mr. Candler began collecting animals four months ago. In cages along the estate wall he placed a Bengal tiger, five elephants (including Rosie, world's largest), a pair of black leopards, a pair of lions (the female is expectant), a pair of llamas which recently had issue, deer, camels, Himalayan goats, zebras, Shetland ponies imported from Germany, eight...
Whether the typical U. S. tycoon is a hero or a viper is a question which history has not yet settled. Two cinemas which addressed themselves to the problem last week helped to solve it by examining both sides of the penny...