Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, playful descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, turned up in the Army, at Fort Meade, Md. He had been missing since the middle of October, shortly after he wed café-daffy Leonore Lemmon. A rubber-check charge long pending against him has been dropped...
Pamela, 12, flew along; Daughter Patricia, 17, stayed on with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt for more schooling at fashionable Miss Hewitt's. She returns to do war work next year...
...There are striking resemblances," says Rosten, "between the founder of the House of Vanderbilt [Cornelius, steamboat owner] and the founder of the House of Mayer [Louis B., theater owner], between the first Warner [Harry M., butcher's son] and the first Astor [John Jacob, butcher's son], ... In 50 years names like Zanuck, Mannix, and Selznick may well be great. . . . 'Honour,' says an ancient proverb, 'is but ancient riches...
Norris L. Tibbetts, Jr. '42, Samson O. A. Ullmann, Jr. '43, Donald F. Waterman '43, Gurden W. Wattles '42, Carl Weihl '42, Lyndon Welch '43, David B. Williams '42, Alan M. Winnick '43, Cornelius A. Wood, Jr. '42, John A. Wood...
Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, 23 (great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt), who last year was married for seven weeks, ran off with Manhattan's playful Lenore Lemmon, 18, to Moncks Corner, S.C. The bride, a refugee from Manhattan's Stork Club-excommunicated for scene-raising-had a bottle opener for a wedding ring. Blonde Vivian Stokes, 18, who canceled her debut after Jakie announced he would wed her, got the news of the elopement while she waited for Jakie in a nightclub. Said the ex-fiancée impetuously: "Jakie can have his Lemmon...