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...absence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, dowager queen of the Met, the press found Mrs. George Washington ("Tiffany's front window") Kavanaugh almost as impressive and much more cooperative. She arrived in her Rolls-Royce, reported the Post, and left in her Cadillac, basking in a sunburst of flashbulbs. When photographers bawled at her to count her diamond bracelets (she had made wonderful copy last year by losing one), she sweetly obliged. Said class-conscious PM: "She had on a chinchilla cape not worth a penny more than...
...winner was spare and scholarly John Cornelius Stennis, 46, a circuit judge. In him, Mississippians hoped they had a man who would return to the hard-working senatorial traditions of Pat Harrison and John Sharp Williams. John Stennis, born on a farm in Kemper County, had made a bright record for himself at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College and at the University of Virginia law school. He had made an equally bright record as legislator, district attorney and judge. He has never had a civil decision reversed...
...real senatorial race was between Rankin's fellow Congressman, William Meyers Colmer, 57, and Circuit Court Judge John Cornelius Stennis, 46. Colmer and Stennis were both waging well-organized, serious campaigns. Significantly, neither was making an issue of white supremacy; they went on record as favoring "the Southern way of life," and let it go at that. Running neck & neck, both were pulling bigger crowds than Rankin...
...year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, inheritor of $20 million, avid pursuer of the outdoor life (horses, deep-sea fishing, hunting, aviation). An instructor pilot in World War I, Whitney entered World War II as a major, served ably in Africa, the Pacific and Washington, came out a colonel with the Distinguished Service Medal...
...Woodwards, Wideners and Sinclairs spent millions on the sport of kings, no stable had ever corralled such a fancy crop of horseflesh. Calumet's clear profit this year will top $600,000 (before taxes). The only other fancy U.S. stable likely even to finish in the black is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's (which has Phalanx, winner of $236,400, on its team...