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Flato 's cuff had been extended liberally to Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller ($1,320). Oth er accounts receivable: Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ($585); Marlene Dietrich ($50); Gloria Laura Vanderbilt ($1,018); Gloria Swanson ($692); Mrs. Alfred G. Vander bilt ($1,096) ; Doris Duke Cromwell...
Somerville High School and Our Lady High School of Newton put on a match to show how the new convex backboard and the Last Bilt ball, both now under investigation by the rules committee, function in actual play...
...Netherlands, where De Bilt Observatory labels any temperature above 88° as "tropical," the thermometer registered 93°. At The Hague, retired Dutch colonials got out their old tropical outfits, relics of Java days; schools were closed afternoons, and young boys stripped and dived into the city's canals to cool off. The Hague used 50% more water than usual...
...banker's son and namesake, now chairman of First National Bank, received the bulk of the estate and personal effects. Two daughters, Evelyn Baker St. George of London and Florence Baker Loew of New York, received $5,000,000 each. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The original "Commodore" Corneel Vander Bilt left control of New York Central and $90,000,000 of his $100,000,000 estate to his eldest son. Dour, morose Son William Henry was the butt of his father's jests and contempt until one day he skinned his father on the price of a scowload...
...downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water on which "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, her illiterate grandfather-in-law, made his start as a ferryman and founded the family fortune...