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MICHIGAN: William J. Hornbeck, Muskegon; Cornelius J. Pack, Iron Mountain...
...Jakie") Webb, ex-sailor, kept the Vanderbilt family in the love news by declaring he was about to elope with Vivian Stokes, Newport's current glamor girl. Twenty-three-year-old Jakie, briefly married two years ago, is the wandering great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune. Vivian, not quite 18, is scheduled to make a splashy Newport debut next week. Jakie turned up there after a three-month absence, declaring he had: joined Canada's Black Watch; ferried bombers to Britain; air-dueled with Germans. He wore a windbreaker bearing...
...floats. He is rich, wavy-haired Wing Commander Whitney Willard Straight, 28, son of the late Major Willard D. Straight, unorthodox Morgan banker who founded and funded the New Republic. Wing Commander Straight is a grandson of the late traction tycoon William C. Whitney, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
During the 33-day war the Vichy forces suffered some 9,000 casualties, the Allies some 1,500. Most of these casualties could have been avoided. In mid-June, before the fall of Damascus, Vichy armistice feelers were issued to the Allies through U.S. Consul General Cornelius Engert in Beirut. Next day the British replied, offering generous terms, but the Nazis put pressure on Vichy, and the futile fighting continued nearly another month...
Romance of the week broke in tiny Plymouth, Ohio, where Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, married the village doctor's daughter, pretty Eleanor Searle, 32. Surprised as anybody was The New Yorker, whose Whitney profile appeared next day with not a mention of the bride. When they met in 1937 she was a receptionist at Pan American Airways, he the polo-playing, twice married chairman of the board. She had come to Manhattan some seven years before to study singing as the protégée of aged Impresario Dan Frohman, who hailed from nearby Sandusky...