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Married. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 48, silver-spoon socialite turned tinsel journalist, roaming New York Post columnist ("Vagabonding with Vanderbilt"), son of high society's dowager queen; and Maria Feliza Pablos, 29, grandniece of Mexico's onetime Dictator-President Porfirio Diaz; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Reno...
...Tinsel Snow on Europe. Another effective countermeasure was "Window": strips of aluminum foil tossed into the air from planes. Two ounces of it looked to enemy radar like an entire bomber. The British first used Window during the 1943 raids on Hamburg. Cried the Nazi gunners, as swarming puffs of Window spotted their radar scopes: "The planes are doubling themselves...
...produced 20,000 tons of Window, which decorated Europe with brilliant tinsel. The Nazis never found an answer, though they desperately offered a 700,000 Reichsmarks reward to German inventors...
When American troops were occupying Germany after the surrender they were somewhat amazed at their discovery almost everywhere they looked of small glittering objects -- narrow strips of bright metal foil which lays on the fields, in the roads, on the rooftops, and hung from the trees like the familiar tinsel on Christmas trees...
They didn't then that this seemingly innocuous "tinsel" was a product of one of the great secret projects of the war, the development of countermeasures against enemy radar. The full story of this program, which cost more than 24 millions dollars and which is estimated to have prevented the loss of more than 450 bombers and 4,500 lives in the Eighth Air Force alone, was released yesterday by the War and Navy Departments...