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...Theodore Roosevelt III, 25, grandson of the late President; and Anne Babcock, 21, Louisville Junior Leaguer; in Louisville, Ky. Plentiful were Republican Roosevelts at the wedding: the bridegroom's father, Colonel Theodore, whose plane was forced down en route; Aunt Alice Roosevelt Longworth; the groom's brothers Cornelius and Quentin; Uncle Archibald. Absent: Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, T. R.'s widow, shaken but unhurt in a four-car collision in Queens, N. Y.; Uncle Kermit, a machine gun officer in the British Army...
...Millions had gone into its transatlantic run, and Pan Am, so they thought, had grown too big for one boss. Last March Juan Trippe's wings were clipped. To by-pass most of his administrative functions, the Board named another man Chief Executive Officer: its chairman, polo-playing Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, one of the original Argonauts who backed Trippe 14 years ago and had been Trippe's friend through most of the great adventure...
...opera with Society Empress Grace Wilson (Mrs. Cornelius) Vanderbilt, Georgia-born Mrs. J. Ormond Lawson-Johnston, once a Broadway mammy singer known as Betty Lee, now a London socialite and intimate friend of the Windsors, dropped her evening bag (containing diamond-studded, gold-plated doodads, value: $2,500) on a Manhattan street. Missing it, the party returned to the Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion, questioned all the servants. Flustered Mrs. Vanderbilt called in the dicks. Next day the bag was returned by an honest jobless couple who had found...
Shaggy-browed Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicuddy) celebrated his 77th birthday, admitted that he had picked his son Earle, 47, to succeed him as president-manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, hastily covered his slip: "But he'll be wearing long, grey whiskers before then...
Mary Quinn formed her taste in art early. Her taste was advanced. As a small girl she loved an impressionist landscape her aunt had painted before Impressionism existed. As an art teacher until she was 40, when she married Manhattan Lawyer Cornelius J. Sullivan, Mary Quinn kept buying the work of unknown artists. Once she stranded herself in Paris by spending every sou she had with her on a Rouault and a Segonzac. She never had resources like those of her good friends Abby Rockefeller and the late Lizzie P. Bliss, with whom she helped found the Museum of Modern...