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...California's Les Steers, University of Oregon track man: the high jump in a dual meet with the University of Washington; clearing the bar at 6 ft., 10 25/32 in.; a new world's record; at Seattle. Fortnight before, California's Cornelius War-merdam set a new world's record for the pole vault...
...Croesus-rich Gerard B. Lambert (Listerine), a Johnny-come-lately to yacht racing, bought the old has-been from Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1927-and how. skippered by Charles Francis Adams, she finished second in the transatlantic race from New York to Spain the next summer...
Seeking Divorce. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 35; from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, multi-millionaire horseman and Pan American Airways board chairman; after ten years' marriage; in Hobe Sound...
Married. Jack Frye, 36. big go-getting president of T. W. A.; and Helen Varner Vanderbilt, 32, who month ago divorced onetime newspaperman Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.; in Echo Canyon, Ariz. Burbled she of her husband: "He is really what a woman dreams for-the most wonderful man I have ever met. ... I guess the romance really developed from my criticism of T. W. A.'s advertising. I said...
Divorced. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., nomadic writer and onetime publisher; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; after six years' marriage, during which Mrs. Vanderbilt, his third wife, sought several times to file separation suits, was frustrated on each occasion because process servers could not locate the restless Vanderbilt trailer; in Carson City...