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...According to an old saying, a fashionable woman can get by with just her pearls." Recalling this, Marie Louise Schroeder Hosford Whitney, 41, fourth wife of Multimillionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 68, bravely fastened on the $500,000 string of pearls that had once adorned the throat of France's Empress Eugenie and set out for her own party at the Saratoga Golf Club. Even Marylou, as she has styled herself ever since she got to like the signature on her oil paintings, admitted that the big pearls might seem "too much" for just an afternoon tea dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Saratoga Story | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...hours after jettisoning his third wife in a Nevada court, money-laden Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 58, took a fourth: Phoenix Socialite Mary Lou Hosford, 32, mother of four and star of a Whitney-produced movie titled The Missouri Traveler. Sonny Whitney wept at the wedding. Earlier he had celebrated his divorce decree by pounding his chest and exulting: "I'm a free man." But as far as the State of New York and wife No. 3, onetime singer and airline receptionist Eleanor Searle Whitney, were concerned, Multimillionaire Whitney was mixed up: two months ago a New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...last fall, the trouble started all over again. Eyring hired a lawyer, got testimony from a reputable psychiatrist that he was perfectly sound. Then, fully armed, he marched to a faculty meeting and denounced the board. After that, the board fired him and announced it was putting Professor Lisle Hosford of the philosophy department in his place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Storm in Las Vegas | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Since there had been no hearing, Eyring declared the dismissal illegal. Thereupon, the board about-faced, held a quick hearing, and fired him again. Eyring still refused to go, kept right on reporting to his office as before. Finally, President Hosford had him arrested for disturbing the peace and for disorderly conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Storm in Las Vegas | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...last period Amory Hubbard put Harvard ahead when he took a Bill Bliss pass, skated around the defense, and beat Carroll on a high lift. Eagle John Canniff tied it up again with the Crimson one man short on a rebound and B.C. went ahead when Joe Hosford soloed in from the right boards and beat Corning less than a minute later. Hosford hit the cage and separated his shoulder on this play...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Improved Crimson Six Bows To Eagles in Overtime, 6-5 | 1/10/1952 | See Source »

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