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Divorced. By Consuelo Vanderbilt Warburton, daughter of the late William Kissam Vanderbilt: her third husband, William John Warburton, Manhattan broker; after 5½ years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...William Kissam Vanderbilt, whose husband left her $35,000,000 last year, will have to get along on just $5,000,000 of it. A trust accounting revealed that the U.S. took $25,000,000 in taxes, New York State...
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...
Watching treaty making in Paris, they decided that the world they had known was finished, determined to go off together to some lonely place to write. Their first lonely place turned out to be New England. William Kissam Vanderbilt, who largely financed the Lafayette Flying Corps, commissioned them to write its official history. Then Harper's offered Hall a contract to visit the South Seas and write travel stories. Nordhoff wangled "some sort of contract" out of the Atlantic. They set off for Australia, touched at Tahiti, made their home there...
...William Kissam Vanderbilt gave his $3,000,000 yacht, the Alva (named for his mother), to the U.S. Navy. Alva has a ventilating system that changes the air every four minutes...