Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Gloria Vanderbilt, 39, spotlighted heiress: and Wyatt Emory Cooper, 39, Hollywood scriptwriter (The Chapman Report); she for the fourth time (the others, in order: Actor's Agent Pat di Cicco, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Director Sidney Lumet), he for the first; in a civil ceremony, in Arlington...
...went to the Big Three schools-2,234 to Yale, 1,746 to Harvard, 1,422 to Princeton. Williams ranks fourth with only 325 alumni, followed by Columbia's 311, Virginia's 160, Cornell's 144, Dartmouth's 115. The list trails off with Vanderbilt and Vermont...
...Transpire. As a product of Vanderbilt, Columbia, and Oxford, Lambuth had his scholar's quibbles. To transpire means "to come to light," he cried, not "to happen."* In hope of, he insisted, not in hopes of. Owing to means "because of," he warned; due to means "the result of." In hope of making the difference between will and shall transpire, Lambuth brandished the Anglo-Saxon words, willan (to wish, to be about to) and sculan (to be obliged). If an act is owing to free will, he ordered, use "I will." If it is due to an outside force...
...rejected. Fortnight ago Walter Reuther told a meeting of union chiefs that Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, had "understated" the unemployment problem. Criticism of specific Administration economic proposals has also been coming with more regularity from such academic economists as Yale's William Fellner, Vanderbilt's Rendigs Fels and Michigan State University's Charles Killingsworth, who recently charged that "the Administration's economic balance is seriously incomplete...
...Establishment. At her death, she left 162 descendants. Today they include, aside from Lady Macmillan and Sir Alec, the Duke of Devonshire, Under Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and brother-in-law of the late Kathleen Kennedy; Lord Lansdown, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs; the half-Vanderbilt Duke of Marlborough; and the Duchess of Gloucester, aunt of the Queen...