Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next week's race is the second of the second series (TIME, Oct. 19), is sponsored by George Vanderbilt over the opposition of his second cousin, W. K. II, who sponsored the first series to promote good highways, scorns the present races as merely pecuniary...
...eight years out of the University of Leipzig, took over Vanderbilt in 1893, it was chiefly because the bickering Methodist Episcopal bishops who ran it could agree on none but a dark horse candidate. Twenty years earlier Bishop Holland McTeyeire had extracted from his wife's cousin-in-law, "Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee's supreme court. Soon Vanderbilt's were...
...commoner wife, the former Irene Lelbach, who divorced her diplomat husband to marry Albert in 1930. Archduke Albert's pretensions are chiefly due to his ambitious mother, the Archduke Isabella. Twice he has sorely disappointed her, once by marrying a commoner, again by hurrying to his young cousin Otto and swearing fealty to him before Isabella could intervene...
...Whitney's three-year-old race horse Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the Withers Stakes, feature race of the week at Long Island's Belmont Park; by two lengths, with Charing Cross second. Morning before the race, Flying Cross, owned by Jock Whitney's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney, and also entered in the Withers, fell dead of heart failure while being exercised...
...Rockefeller family was with him. John D. Jr., his only son, was at Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Alta Rockefeller Prentice, his only living daughter, was at her estate at Williamstown, Mass. At the bedside in the air-conditioned chamber were Mrs. Fannie Evans, the cousin who acted as his hostesshousekeeper; his longtime valet-attendant, John H. Yordi, and his night nurse, Roy C. Sly. "His passing was peaceful," said Dr. Merryday. "He had no final message. Apparently he didn't realize he was dying." Death was attributed to sclerotic myocarditis (hardening of the heart muscles...