Word: turfman
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...