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...scope and vigor of those activities there has seemingly been another, even more potent inspiration. Perhaps it was the fading tradition of successful Cornelius I, which high-minded, highstrung Cornelius IV sought to regarnish, revitalize. Or perhaps his wife had something to do with it. Rachel Littleton came of no effete patroon line, though she did not mind marrying into one. Her father, Martin Wilie Littleton, is a lawyer of the very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanderbilt | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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