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Died. George Vanderbilt III, 47, adventurer-ichthyologist brother of Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt with whom he shared part of a massive railroad fortune founded by Great-Great-Grandfather Cornelius ("Commodore") Vanderbilt; of a fall from his tenth-floor suite in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel...
...long and the next, the quit parade continued to Langlie's tenth-floor office in the magazine's Park Avenue building-John English, managing editor; Jay Stanwyck, director of research; Estelle Lane Brent, fashion editor; Betty Parsons Ragsdale, fiction editor; Marion Wheeler, production editor; Peggy Bell, features editor. By week's end 16 staffers had resigned, and, one by one, McCall's publicity department doggedly issued terse press releases with the news. Some of the departees were so angry that they left without cleaning out their desks, had their belongings shipped home. Shrugged Langlie...
...world made new." The house that Ochs built and Sulzberger expanded is softly lighted and handsomely equipped, from the 88 presses and 106 linotypes to the pink-walled ladies' washrooms. In the soundproofed third-floor city room no one ever runs and few raise their voices; on the tenth-floor the editorial writers deliberate in monastery-like offices...
This picture is packed. It's got everything but a wild west chase. The story of a British psychiatrist who can't solve his own problems, "Mine Own Executioner" bonsts a murder, a suicide on a tenth-floor ledge, a hair-raising ladder climb, a schizophrenic, a plane going down in flames, a sinister Luger, Japanese torturers, truth serums, a to-the-rescue courtroom exoneration, and a little boy whose gap-toothed, trusting grin sets everything right in a fogless London...
...Night Clerk Comer Rowan sat in for his wife at the switchboard of Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel. It was a dull hour. Out of the front door, cold moonlight flooded deserted Peachtree Street. In his tenth-floor suite, white-thatched, 70-year-old W. Frank Winecoff, who built the hotel in 1913,* slept soundly...