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Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 35, multimillionaire turfman, and second wife Jeanne Lourdes Murray Vanderbilt, 29, brunette socialite who once worked as a pressagent for Manhattan's chichi Stork Club: their first child (his second), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Heidi. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...Turfman MacKenzie is right; according to WMC, Los Angeles war-plant absenteeism was down .1% in November. To TIME'S Sports Editor, a box on the ears for taking the word of sports columnists on matters outside their field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Navy Lieut. Alfred GwynneVanderbilt, 31-year-old turfman turned South Pacific PT-boat skipper, was photographed with his 29-year-old brother George (also a lieutenant) at an advanced base in New Guinea (see cut). Apparently greasemonkeys to a considerable chunk of naval equipment, the descendants of the fabulous, family-founding skipper of the Staten Island ferry betrayed their rank only by their officer-like mustaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Patty Berg? | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Ineligible to run the Braves, Turfman Adams forthwith got hardy Bob Quinn, onetime owner of the rival Boston Red Sox, to take charge of the club (renamed the Bees) until a suitable buyer could be found. But customers for a big-league ball club do not grow on trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sugar for the Bees | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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