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Divorced. George Vanderbilt, 43, great-great-grandson of Railroad Tycoon Cornelius ("Commodore") Vanderbilt, sportsman, big game hunter; by Anita Zabala Howard Vanderbilt, 53, onetime wife of Sportsman Lindsay Howard; after nearly twelve years of marriage, no children; in Honolulu...
...machines and queued up for ten-course $1.25 lunches. And at a state convention in Hawthorn (pop. 3,700), Nevada's Democratic Party was practically taken over lock, stock and barrel by one of the most remarkable new figures in U.S. politics: Errett Lobban Cord, sometime Wall Street tycoon and longtime millionaire recluse, now turned glad-handing vote chaser...
...Tycoon. To his Nevada neighbors, E. L. Cord is the Democratic state senator from Esmeralda County, where jack rabbits outnumber the 430 registered voters. But in other parts of the U.S., Cord's name has other meanings. Automobile buffs remember the Cord 812, with its front drive, its classic lines and its $2,395 price tag* as one of the finest U.S. cars ever produced. Wall Street remembers Cord as the golden negotiator and operating man who put the Auburn Automobile Co. in the black, and held substantial interests in American Airways, Lycoming Manufacturing, New York Shipbuilding and Stinson...
...glittering seven-story building, white-cupolaed and monumental with pillars, fitted out inside with tiles and marble, English oak paneling, elevators, and hot-air blowers (instead of towels) in the lavatories. It cost $1,700,000-more than two-thirds of it from the pocket of British Chain Store Tycoon Isaac Wolf son-and the dedication ceremony was appropriate for a building that aspires to be the new center of religious law for all the world's Orthodox Jews...
Last week two whopping gifts brought the center a trombone-length nearer reality. From Socialite Art Patron Mrs. Vivian Allen (daughter of Department-Store Tycoon Joseph Shoenberg, one of the founders of the May Co.) came $3,000,000, to be used on a 1,200-seat repertory theater. For the general fund covering construction expenses, one member of the Philharmonic's board of directors anonymously kicked in $500,000. Total gifts so far: $28,550,000, largely from the Ford, Rockefeller and Avalon Foundations. Still needed...