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Josephine Hartford Bryce
Marie Josephine "JoJo" Hartford O’Donnell Makaroff Douglas Bryce (1903 – June 8, 1992) was an American heiress, thoroughbred racehorse owner and socialite from New York. She was the daughter of Edward V. Hartford, an inventor and heir to the A&P, A&P grocery store fortune. Biography Marie Josephine "JoJo" Hartford was born in 1903. She was the first child born to Edward V. Hartford and his wife Henrietta Guerard Pollitzer. She was the granddaughter to George Huntington Hartford, who made his fortune leading the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. JoJo's parents were said to live ostentatiously compared to others in the Hartford family. Unlike his brothers, Edward V did not work for A&P, choosing to live as a gentleman. The couple travelled extensively, maintaining a plantation in South Carolina, a home on Fifth Avenue, and a weekend estate in New Jersey. JoJo's father Edward died in 1922. Upon her father's death, his fortune would pass to JoJo, her brother Huntington Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward V
Edward V (2 November 1470 – ) was King of England from 9 April to 25 June 1483. He succeeded his father, Edward IV, upon the latter's death. Edward V was never crowned, and his brief reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle and Lord Protector, the Duke of Gloucester, who deposed him to reign as King Richard III; this was confirmed by the ''Titulus Regius'', an Act of Parliament which denounced any further claims through Edward IV's heirs by delegitimising Edward V and all of his siblings. This was later repealed by Henry VII, who subsequently married Elizabeth of York, Edward V's eldest sister. Edward V and his younger brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, are known as the Princes in the Tower. They disappeared after being sent to heavily guarded royal lodgings in the Tower of London. Responsibility for their disappearance (and presumed deaths) is widely attributed to Richard III, who sent them to the Tower, but the lack of conclusive evidence and conflicting contempora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exposition Internationale Des Arts Et Techniques Dans La Vie Moderne
The ''Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne'' (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France. Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Musée de l'Homme, and the Palais de Tokyo, which houses the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, were created for this exhibition that was officially sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions. A third building, , housing the permanent Museum of Public Works, which was originally to be among the new museums created on the hill of Chaillot on the occasion of the Exhibition, was not built until January 1937 and inaugurated in March 1939. Exhibitions At first the centerpiece of the exposition was to be a tower (" Phare du Monde") which was to have a spiraling road to a parking garage located at the top and a hotel and restaurant located above that. The idea was abandoned as it was far too expensive. Pavilions Finnish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North American Newspaper Alliance
The North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) was a large newspaper syndicate in operation between 1922 and 1980. NANA employed writers such as Grantland Rice, Joseph Alsop, Michael Stern, Lothrop Stoddard, Dorothy Thompson, George Schuyler, Pauline Frederick, Sheilah Graham Westbrook, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway (who covered the Spanish Civil War for NANA). History Foundation NANA was founded in 1922 by 50 major newspapers in the United States and Canada led by Harry Chandler of the ''Los Angeles Times'' and Loring Pickering of the ''San Francisco Chronicle''.Watson, Elmo Scott. "CHAPTER VIII: Recent Developments in Syndicate History 1921-1935," 'History of Newspaper Syndicates''Archived at ''Stripper's Guide'' Wheeler era Publishing executive John Neville Wheeler became general manager of NANA in 1930, which soon absorbed the Bell Syndicate, a similar organization Wheeler had founded around 1916, although both continued to operate indivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pablo Bryce
John Pablo Bryce of Bystock Court, Exmouth, Devon (10 October 1846 in Callao, Peru – 3 March 1901 in Rome, Italy) was an Anglo-Peruvian guano millionaire and member of the British gentry. Family He was the son of John Paul Bryce (1817 in Edinburgh, Scotland – 9 March 1888 in Biarritz, France), founder of the Bryce & Co. ship company and the General South American Bank, and full partner in the W. R. Grace and Company, who went to Peru between 1837 and 1862, where he married at Callao, on 11 June 1845 Gertrudis María de los Dolores de Vivero y Morales. He was the paternal grandson of Francis Bryce and first wife Janet Weddle, and maternal grandson of José Pascual de Vivero y Salaverría, Governor of Guayaquil, and wife Lucía Morales. Biography He held the office of Sheriff of Devon in 1896. Marriage and issue He married in Paris in 1870/71 with María de las Mercedes González de Candamo e Iriarte, sister of Manuel González de Candamo e Iriarte, President of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyns Park - Geograph
Moyns Park is a Grade I listed country house in Steeple Bumpstead, Essex. History The home of the Gent family, until the late 19th century, was once owned by Major-General Cecil Robert St John Ives, maternal grandfather of Ivar Bryce, the next owner. Bryce was a close friend of the author Ian Fleming, who stayed at the house in the summer of 1956. When Bryce's wife, Josephine Hartford, an A&P heiress and sister of Huntington Hartford, died in 1992, she left the estate to Lord Ivar Mountbatten and George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven. Ivar Bryce's first cousin Janet Mercedes Bryce had been married to David Mountbatten and was the mother of Ivar and George Mountbatten. Lord Ivar Mountbatten lived in the house with his wife, Penelope Thompson, before selling it in 1997. It is said that Fleming made final changes to his novel '' From Russia, with Love'' in the house. The house was also the location for several Hammer Horror films. The house was also used as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Preakness Stakes
The 1947 Preakness Stakes was the 57th running of the $100,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds. The second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series took place on May 10, 1947, and was run seven days after the 1947 Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Douglas Dodson, who was praised by the ''Daily Racing Form'' for a smart ride, Faultless won the mile and three sixteenths race by one and a quarter lengths over runner-up On Trust with the betting favorite Phalanx in third. Jet Pilot, winner of the Kentucky Derby, finished fourth. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 1:59 flat. Payout The 57th Preakness Stakes Payout Schedule The full chart 1947 Preakess Stakes scheduled starters, jockeys, trainers, owners * Winning breeder: Calumet Farm (KY) * Times: 1/4 mile 0:23 ; 1/2 mile – 0:47 ; 3/4 mile – 1:12 ; mile – 1:39 ; 1 3/16 – 1:59 . * Track condition: fast Clem McCarthy's Blunder During the homestretch of the Preakness, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Kentucky Derby
The 1944 Kentucky Derby was the 70th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 6, 1944. Full results * Winning breeder: Calumet Farm ( KY) References 1944 Kentucky Derby Derby May 1944 sports events in the United States Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ... 1940s in Louisville, Kentucky {{KentuckyDerby-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 Kentucky Derby
The 1942 Kentucky Derby was the 68th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1942. Full results * Winning breeder: Greentree Stable ( KY) References 1942 Kentucky Derby Derby May 1942 sports events in the United States Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ... 1940s in Louisville, Kentucky {{KentuckyDerby-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chop Chop (horse)
Chop Chop (1940-1963) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. He was sired by Flares (horse), Flares, a son of United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, U.S. Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox and a full brother to U.S. Triple Crown winner Omaha (horse), Omaha. Flares raced in England with considerable success for owner William Woodward Sr., counting the Ascot Gold Cup, Champion Stakes and Princess of Wales's Stakes among his wins. Purchased as a yearling for $4,100 by Josephine Hartford Bryce, Josephine Douglas of Oyster Bay (town), New York, Oyster Bay, New York, Chop Chop saw his racing career cut short due to an injury. From eleven starts, he won four times and finished out of the money once. His most important wins came in the 1942 Endurance Handicap at Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland and the 1943 Empire City Handicap at New York City, New York's Jamaica Race Course, in which he beat Princequil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Grillo Stakes
The Miss Grillo Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds filles over a distance of miles on the turf track scheduled annually in late September at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The event currently offers a purse of $200,000. History The event was named for the Argentine bred filly Miss Grillo, a record breaking stakes winner in the 1940s who won the Diana Handicap twice. The event was inaugurated on 29 October 1980 at Aqueduct Racetrack and was run over the mile distance with Robert Kluener's Smilin' Sera winning the event by one length over De La Rose in a time of 1:51. De La Rose the following year would be crowned the US Champion Female Turf Horse. In 1982 the event was classified as Grade III, upgraded to Grade II in 1988 and was downgraded to Grade III the following year. From 2001–2007 the race was not graded as in 2009 when the event was moved off the turf track due to the inclement weather and held over a shorter one mile dista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Grillo
Miss (pronounced ) is an English-language honorific typically used for a girl, for an unmarried woman (when not using another title such as " Doctor" or "Dame"), or for a married woman retaining her maiden name. Originating in the 17th century, it is a contraction of '' mistress''. The plural of ''Miss'' is ''Misses'' or occasionally ''Mses''. History Origins Like '' Ms'' and ''Mrs'', ''Miss'' has its roots in the title ''Mistress''. ''Miss'' was originally a title given primarily to children rather than adults. During the 1700s, its usage broadened to encompass adult women. The title emerged as a polite way to address women, reflecting changing societal norms and class distinctions. Prior to this, referring to an adult woman as a ''Miss'' might have carried connotations of prostitution. Evolution of meanings and usage The meanings of both ''Miss'' and ''Mrs'' underwent transformations over time. Historically, these titles did not solely indicate marital status. Even aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architecture, architect whose firm is widely known for designing major public buildings, including the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941), all in Washington, D.C. Early life and education Pope was born in New York City, on April 24, 1874, the son of a successful portrait painter and his wife. He studied architecture at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1894. He was the first recipient of the Rome Prize to attend the newly founded American Academy in Rome, a training ground for the designers of the American Renaissance. He would remain involved with the academy until his death. Pope traveled for two years through Italy and Greece, where he studied, sketched and made measured drawings of more Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance structures than he di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
