Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Alice Frances Hammond, daughter of John Henry Hammond, lawyer-banker; great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; niece of Ogden Haggerty Hammond, U. S. Ambassador to Spain; to George Arthur Victor Duckworth, grandson of the late John Campbell Campbell (1779-1861) onetime Lord Chancellor of England, descendant of Plantagenets; in Manhattan...
Married. Mrs. Flora Whitney Tower, daughter of Harry Payne Whitney, granddaughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; to one G. MacCulloch Miller; in Cairo, Egypt...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. of Manhattan enjoys very little private publicity these days. Only through his feverishly active and vociferous son and namesake does he appear headlines.* But last week he appeared in headlines quite independently. He served to make one of Manhattan's fondest illusions come true-that someone with a name like Vanderbilt is "biggest clubman." The 1927 edition of Club Members of New York shows that Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. belongs to 16 clubs- Larchmont Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, University, Union, Knickerbocker, New York Yacht, Union League, Century Association, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf and Field, Engineers...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., whose tabloid newspaper ventures in California and Florida have failed, lately returned to his journalistic tutor, Publisher Hearst, in the capacity of feature writer. One of his first offerings was a lengthy autobiographical piece blaming Mr. Vanderbilt Sr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt for their son's failure. They promised him, he said, three millions "out of my inheritance" . . . then withdrew support "and left me holding the bag." Hearstly screamers broadcast this implied perfidy, together with a picture of Mr. Vanderbilt Sr.'s yacht, Atlantic, and a touching reference to the $4,000 per day it cost...
...extra edition of Viennese newspapers to appear this year. Died. Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, 64, gold star mother of James Bethel Gresham, first U. S. soldier killed in the War; of pneumonia, at Evansville, Ind., in a little cottage which citizens built in memory of her son. Died. William Vanderbilt, 70, dynamite expert, suddenly, at Peabody, Mass. He arranged 75 sticks of dynamite in a circle, stood in the centre, set them off. Died. Lucy Maynard Salmon, 73, ranking professor at Vassar, who created the History Department in 1887; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Died. Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, 85, historian...