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...house in Grand Rapids). Ancestry: His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was of Dutch descent; his mother, Alpha Hendrick, of English. His father, a native of New York, moved to Michigan in 1878, where he went into the harness-making business. His elder half-brother Collins is the father of General Hoyt Vandenberg, new Air Force chief of staff. Educated: Grand Rapids grade and high schools, one year at the University of Michigan (1901-02). Married: in 1907 to Elizabeth Watson of Grand Rapids, who died in 1916; in 1918 to Hazel H. Whitaker, a Fort Wayne schoolteacher, social worker and newspaperwoman...
...Winchester, Va., General Hoyt S. Vandenberg found time in a busy week to crown Skater Gretchen Merrill as Queen Shenandoah XXI of the annual Apple Blossom Festival. Her scepter looked like a rather graceful table...
Comeback Money. In Indianapolis, an eight-year-old moviegoer lifted $1 from Phillip Hoyt, bought some candy, got nabbed as he tried to slip the change back into Hoyt's pocket...
...replace him, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington chose Spaatz's second in command, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, 49. A favored nephew of Michigan's influential senior senator, Gen. Vandenberg rates as an able, affable officer, long on administrative ability, short on personal force...
...time of the Dewey announcement, MacArthur supporters had whipped themselves up to a lather of confidence. Gathering in Milwaukee's Plankinton House, 200 MacArthurmen from 19 states met to listen to jubilant speeches by Wisconsin's Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman and ex-America Firster Lansing Hoyt, national chairman of the MacArthur-for-President clubs. The delegates talked hopefully of winning all of Wisconsin's 27 convention votes...