Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard '39) has spent most of his postgraduate years doggedly following society's international trail. Somewhere between Boston and Bar Harbor he lost the scent, concluded gloomily that society was dead. "I realized," said Amory, "that the celebrity world overcame the society world-nobody looks at Mrs. Vanderbilt's pearls any more; they just want to see what Marlene Dietrich is wearing...
When Mrs. Eddie Fisher's singing husband opened at the Waldorf's Empire Room in Manhattan last week, she decided to make it a party. To the midnight show (the earlier dinner show is considered on the square side) she asked 72 guests, including Gloria Vanderbilt, Ingemar Johansson, aging Aly Khan and his durable friend, French Model Bettina, Arthur Loew Jr. (of the movie Loews) and his bride, who is Tyrone Power's widow. A strict seating plan enforced by flacks and headwaiters deployed the guests at six reserved tables, each equipped with three massive tins...
...bankers was Henry Clay Alexander. He was not saddled with the marks of wealth, caste and privilege. He was born in humble circumstances, the son of a grain and feed merchant in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He did not attend the best Eastern prep schools, had worked his way through Vanderbilt University, saved enough to go on to Yale Law School. He had not been trained to be a banker, joined the Manhattan law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed as a promising trainee, did so well that he became a partner...
...Mississippi (4-0)-remained undefeated, untied and unscored-upon by lacing feeble Vanderbilt...
Nominee Burden is a great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, made a fortune in his own right -after graduating from Harvard ('27) and studying aviation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-as an aviation-securities specialist in Wall Street. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air (1943-47), Burden specialized in Latin American air transportation problems, was a close associate of Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller. As Special Assistant for Research and Development to the Secretary of the Air Force (1950-52), Burden laid the groundwork for his appointment by President Eisenhower last May to the blue-ribbon National Aeronautics...