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Died. William Kissam Vanderbilt, 65, multimillionaire sportsman; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. The high-domed, twice-married great-grandson of the New York Central Railroad's fabulous Founder Cornelius Vanderbilt was burdened by the railroad's presidency for only one year (1918-19). In 1904 he started and refereed the first Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race (the winner averaged 52 m.p.h.), in World War I commanded the U.S.S. Tarantula with the hand of a longtime yachtsman. Famed as the footloose owner of the $3,000,000 diesel yacht Alva (his 1941 gift to the Navy), he studied hard...
Charles Dickens' great-grandson, British Naval Lieut. Peter Gerald Charles, got the D.S.O. for skillful and daring attacks "in enemy coastal waters...
General Forrest's name was carried down through father and son to his great-grandson, Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Last week, in a curt communique, the Army announced that Brigadier General Forrest was missing from a raid over Kiel. When last seen, his bomber was spiraling down, still under control, but with one motor smoking and its tail half shot off. Eight parachutes were seen to drop from it; one might have been General Forrest's. If he was not among those saved a great name had died...
Died. Alastair Arthur, 28, Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; in Government House, Ottawa, Canada. A member of a Scottish regiment who had served two years with the British Army in Egypt, he was the last of his line; the title ended with...
...ruddy Congressman Melvin Joseph Maas, colonel in the Marines, returned to Washington from action in the Southwest Pacific, wearing the Silver Star for conspicuous service. He led an air hunt for Jap cruisers, found none, but shot up a couple of airdromes before returning to base. Jay Cooke III, great-grandson of the famed Civil War financier, an ex-socialite now a rock-jawed, boot-tough soldier, won a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went to Hollywood from Kentucky...