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Colorful and significant was a sidelight cast upon the whole situation by famed Fight Tycoon Tex Rickard. "In 1913," said he last week, "I came up through the Argentine with twenty cowboys, 50,000 head of cattle and a train of about fifty wagons, with the idea of crossing into Paraguay across the Pilcomayo River, the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine. Well, as soon as we got into Paraguay we came across a lot of forts, all filled with Bolivians. And these Bolivians-soldiers they were-said that if we didn't turn back they'd shoot...
...Ogden Haggerty Hammond has risen from small Hoboken real estate dealings to the position of a real estate tycoon and the rank of U. S. Ambassador to Spain. His first wife was of the most aristocratic section of Hoboken, famed Castle Point. The present Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond of New York City and Ambassador Hammond tendered their luncheon to Royalty, last week, on the eve of returning to the U. S. for a short visit. They leave in charge of the Embassy in Madrid, quietly renowned Counselor Sheldon Whitehouse. He prepared for diplomacy as private secretary to the late Ambassador...
Among Frenchmen the familiar U. S. paradox of a rich man "dry as a matter of business" but socially wringing wet is significantly turned inside out by Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy. "As a matter of business" M. Hennessy spends millions to extol the virtues of "***Hennessy," probably the best of large production brandies. Mixed with equal parts of Italian Vermuth, famed "***Hennessy" becomes the surprising and delicious "Ponce de Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English...
People who like to sniff the famed perfumes of FrançoisCoty will be glad to know that the paper of which he makes a hobby, L'Ami du Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick...
Married. Raymond T. Baker, famed Nevadan cosmopolite, recently divorced by Mrs. Margaret Emerson Vanderbilt Baker, thrice-married turfwoman (TIME, Oct. 15); to Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late auto-tycoon Horace E. Dodge, who recently divorced James H. R. Cromwell, Manhattan banker; in Manhattan...