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First socialites to have themselves lugged to the track by hand were Katherine Wait, Kathleen Kennedy and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's half-sister, Gloria Baker...
...latest designs in shirts and underwear, only asked that he let it be discreetly known where he got them. Black, Starr & Frost provided watches and cigaret-cases. Mrs. Clarence Mackay got her husband to let him send Postal telegrams for nothing. Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Vanderbilt gave him passes on their husbands' railroads. He advised women on their clothes and social affairs and husbands did not distrust him. Among multimillionaires who, as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr says, "might hold up the market but could not prevent conversation slumping heavily at their own tables." Lehr's levity...
Early in the 1920's he got the ear of Harry Payne Whitney through his playboy son, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who knew something about mining as well as water travel (see cut), canoed through Manitoba lakes and rivers to inspect the claims in person. Upshot was organization of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting in 1927 with the Flin Flon claims and $17,500,000 in cash. Jack Hammell and his hungry prospectors had already been paid off on substantially their own terms...
Hudson Bay's board chairman is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, eleven years older and a good deal wiser than the young man of 24 who first paddled and portaged to Flin Flon. He has done his part to uphold the Whitney tradition as the first sporting family of the land, but, like his first cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, he has managed to mix with considerable grace business, horses and the conspicuous restlessness of the very rich. He helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is now its board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State...
Married. Countess Gladys Szechenyi, 21. daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the Court of St. James's, and of the former Gladys Vanderbilt; and Christopher Guy Heneage Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone, 23, only son of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham, and of the former Margaretta Armstrong Drexel of Philadelphia; in London...