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Married. Frances Teresa Kelley, daughter of Copperman Cornelius Francis Kelley (Anaconda) of Manhattan; to Thomas Mortimer Keresey, publicity director of the International Mercantile Marine, of Manhattan; in Manhattan...
Smartest Parisians of the ċercle du Ritz Bar were titillated and intrigued, last week, by news from Manhattan that General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt seemed finally reconciled not only with their lanky ex-publisher son Cornelius Jr., but also with their cherub-faced and rumpus-raising nephew Erskine Gwynne...
...Cornelius Jr. is scarcely famed in Paris-having chosen California as his place to toil and go bankrupt publishing tabloid news organs. Therefore announcements that General Cornelius Vanderbilt had made available $2,257,000 to pay the California tabloid creditors (TIME, Dec. 31), were of relatively slight interest to such typical Paris tycoons as M. Henri Letellier, publisher of the world's third largest newspaper, Le Journal. It was M. Letellier who employed, as his confidential and executive secretary until recently, the cherubic Erskine Gwynne. But tout Paris took keen interest, last week, at reports that Nephew Gwynne...
...Both Son Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. and Nephew Erskine Gwynne have now repented their original sin of writing for the lurid, gumchewerish Hearst Sunday Magazine. It was son Cornelius Jr.'s indiscretions in this blatant field which for years estranged his parents. Simultaneously Nephew Gwynne was writing from Paris a series which Hearst editors published as: "The Memoirs of Mrs. Jean Nash, by The Best Dressed and Most Extravagant Woman in the World...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. received from his father and mother a check for $1,000,000 to pay off the creditors of his defunct tabloid newspapers. One million, two hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars of his heritage was also released for him to repay persons who lost money in backing his papers. This means that he was completely reconciled with his father. Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had not approved of the newspaper ventures. After the family reunion, in Manhattan. Vanderbilt Jr. left for his ranch near Reno, Nev., to spend the holidays with his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary...