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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...
Naval Lieut. (j.g.) Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is going to marry her, said Hollywood's contour de force K. T. Stevens. The millionaire peacetime sportsman, divorced last year by Manuela Hudson, is now PT Boating in the South Pacific.* "It isn't official, exactly," said K.T., "but we're mutually agreed. . .. We hope-I mean, I hope-we can be married when he gets his next leave...
...Father Sousa. He did more than anyone else to give "strangers the impression that we were engaged in a constant celebration of Bastille Day." Father was a sportsman, with "a special fondness for equipment." A trail of duffel bags and duck decoys filled the Sousa hallways. "All the best closets were quickly filled with sleeping bags, tents, canteens, fishing rods, tackle boxes. . . ." Father had a passion for the society of policemen, for presiding on committees. "After the first couple of months [he] virtually ran Chilapa, although not necessarily by consent of the inhabitants...
...vigor is almost overwhelming. He was catcher on his varsity baseball team, is a good fisherman, hunts with the sportsman's single-barreled shotgun, golfs with the natural American combination of a he-man's long drive and a duffer's inability to break...
Died. Major Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 59, big-game-hunting sportsman whose trial for murder was a Maughamesque midsummer sensation of Kenya Colony in 1941; of undetermined causes; in Liverpool. He was acquitted in the fatal shooting of his handsome friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Enroll, with whom Sir Henry's 29-year-old bride had fallen in love...