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...tabloid snob-gossip's dream week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 28, the country's best-known young multimillionaire sportsman, was sued for divorce in New York by Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt (charges: adultery with two corespondents). Said Alfred's mother, Mrs. Margaret Emerson, who has been married four times: "I wouldn't give much for him if he didn't. After all, he's a normal young man and he has been separated from his wife for eight months. He wouldn't be a son of mine if he stopped living." Wept crocodile Hearstling Cholly...
...Variety, Editor Ralph Ingersoll last week explained in an interview how his backer, Marshall Field III, feels about the $22,000 weekly losses of his 5? New York tabloid, PM. Said he of Sportsman Field who has so far sunk around $2,000,000 into PM: "Mr. Field compares PM in some ways with the Philharmonic Orchestra. No one thinks of disbanding the Philharmonic merely because it doesn't now support itself nor never...
...Sportsman Marshall Field III, having sunk some $1,950,000 into the 5? New York tabloid PM, and having called in outside experts to see what was the matter, last week was preparing to back another paper. Result: a prospectus announcing a 32-page national weekly to be launched soon and called Parade. It is to be distributed (starting with an expected 150,000 copies) like The American Weekly or This Week, as a newspaper supplement-or in cities where a newspaper customer cannot be found, to sell separately for 5? on the newsstands...
Last week, 750 miles west of its former Manhattan office, Scribner's Commentator, bellwether of isolationist theoreticians, was busy getting settled in its headquarters in Lake Geneva, Wis.(pop. 3,258). Founded four years ago by Charles Shipman Payson, rich redheaded brother-in-law of Sportsman Jack Whitney. Scribner's Commentator has had as contributors Charles Lindbergh, Senators Wheeler and Nye, General Hugh Johnson, the Chicago Tribune's Publisher R. R. McCormick...
Married. Ethel Woodward, socialite daughter of Banker-Sportsman William Woodward, owner of three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox, Omaha, Johnstown); and Philippe de Croisset, veteran of Dunkirk, son of the late Parisian Playwright François de Croisset; in Manhattan...