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Born. To Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities tycoon; his first grandson, Samuel Insull III, son of Samuel Insull Jr., 31, and Mrs. Adelaide Pierce Insull, 31; in Chicago. Weight...
Nobody really knew where Troy had stood till Heinrich Schliemann came along and dug it up. Schliemann was not a professional archeologist but a retired indigo tycoon who made his pile and then dug for fun, for treasure, and to satisfy his belief in the literal truth of Homer...
...finals were played between two young Bachelor Club members, Eric Martin-Smith and John De Forest. Martin-Smith, a Cambridge undergraduate, showed traces of the style which enabled his father, a London banker, to play for England against Scotland 20 years ago. The coal-tycoon father of John De Forest had sent his son to the U. S. a year ago as a reward for good golf in last year's championship. In the U. S., John De Forest was shown how to putt by Stewart Maiden, Bobby Jones's teacher, but it did not seem...
...Grace Isabell Hammond Conners, 31, the slim, comely, brown-eyed, determined widow of the late William James ("Fingy") Conners, Buffalo steamship, newspaper and political tycoon. The Connerses lived so gaily at "The Monastery," their estate at Huntington, Long Island, that since he died (1929) she has refused to return there. (One of the rooms is paved with old tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic...
...MacMillan will make his annual skirt of Labrador and Baffin Land, this time with a flotilla of three boats. Antarctica. A tourist trip to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America last Antarctic summer was abandoned, may occur next December. Last season Consul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling tycoon, steamed completely around the Antarctic Continent, looking out for whale feeding grounds and spotting a few landmarks. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape...