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...undersigned faculty members of Van derbilt's Divinity School do not consider its almost ten years of integration to be token desegregation. Colleagues absent during spring recess vould undoubtedly agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 6, 1962 | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...confused with Countess Gladys Szechenyi, daughter of the late Cornelius Van-derbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...rumored that Cornelius Van- derbilt Jr., unsuccessful publisher of the Miami Tab, the Los Angeles News and the San Francisco Herald, had been offered the position of editor of Liberty magazine, recently purchased by Macfadden Publications, Inc. (TIME, April 13). But last week he took the job of vice president in Lyman, Irish & Co., Manhattan advertising agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 11, 1931 | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...usual panoply of historical romance: the storming of ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath'd henchmen, the moneyed powers, the lovely Senorita de Avila who dies heroically so that Peter may live. Filibuster Walker, as some may recall, spurns the aid of the mighty Commodore Van- derbilt. So the Commodore who spits tobacco to the delight of Manhattan street-cleaners thwarts the destiny of Mr. Walker. In Honduras there is a final "spectacle"-a firing squad . . . the limp body of the destiny-man ... a clatter of hoofs . . . the sparing of Peter, who returns to Manhattan, to the waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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