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...going to divorce Porfirio Rubirosa (who used to be Dominican charge d'affaires in Vichy) to marry her third, Actor Pierre Louis. When Husband Porfirio paid her a visit, "I made known to him my intention . . ." said she. "He accepted like a gentle-man." Plump, greying Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 48, whose first, second and third marriages lasted, respectively", seven, three and six years, was now separated, after something less than six months, from beauteous Maria Feliza Pablos, 29-year-old grandniece of Mexico's late President Porfirio Diaz...
...Cousin Thee" (as Teddy Roosevelt was known in the family) had relatively little to do with the family business. But Roosevelt & Son had plenty of the strenuous life. Founded by James I. Roosevelt (who later took his son Cornelius into partnership), the firm started out as a hardware shop in Maiden Lane, barely opened its doors before Manhattan was swept by yellow fever. The shop not only survived the epidemic but within a few years was so prosperous that it began dis counting notes for other merchants. This led to other financial activities, and the hardware business was finally abandoned...
When Bob Young starts his improvement, probably by trying to get his men elected to Central's board of directors, he will run smack up against Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt and Union Pacific, which owns 160,000 shares of Central. A great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Central's founder, Chairman Vanderbilt holds only some 65,000 shares. Young will be in for a scrap. But he is no man to dodge one. Wall Streeters watched with smiles of anticipation. It looked as if Central would soon be in the hottest fight since railroaders Jim Fisk...
...natural wild mink coat, on sale after Christmas for $3,300 (with a 20% tax), would sell for $3,025 (with only a 10% tax). A half-ounce bottle of Chanel No. 5, now costing $12 with tax, would cost $11. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's Monday nights at the Met would cost her $1,221 a season instead of $1,320. A bottle of bonded bourbon, now selling for $6.90, would cost 60 less...
Bachelors of Science: Edward John Hartmann, Cornelius Joseph Hogan, William Andrew Jaracz, Martin Seymour Kapp, Frank Champion Keegan Jr., George Archibald Kelser Jr., Alden Packard Peterson, Robert Gildersleeve Rhoades, Samuel Bernard Sheldon, Edmund Rudolf Wyder...