Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Central to howl over the time Ella Widener threw an egg at a night-court judge and the day Liz Whitney arrived at the track straight from a nightclub, wearing a ball gown and leading a small pack of dogs. Or the time Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt sent so sorry a horse to the post that he sympathetically gave the jockey-instead of riding orders-a sandwich, a bottle of milk and a wrist compass...
...potential of any private university in the country." New presidents always talk that way, but Emory has plenty of promise. Named for an early Methodist bishop, it was horn a country college in Oxford, Ga., had a heady rebirth in 1915 after the Methodist Church divorced Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Having dumped Vandy, the Methodists launched two new universities-Emory and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Atlanta's Coca-Cola King Asa G. Candler gave land and $1,000,000-leading to a short-lived suggestion that Emory be renamed for Thomas Coke, another early bishop. Thus lured...
Although it overshadows such Southern universities as Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina, Emory still ranks below the Southern likes of Duke, Tulane, Virginia, Vanderbilt and North Carolina. Bemused by its Coke money, Emory for years neglected to cultivate other givers, and now pays full professors badly enough to get a "D" salary rating from the American Association of University Professors. Unable to raid other faculties or fully expand its plant, Emory may need $100 million in the next decade to win the rank it wants-a place among the nation's top 20 universities. To get the university moving...
...start as a crone if she had any hope of becoming an ingenue. She did anything at all, including a production of The Thirteenth God in which the 13 gods onstage regularly outnumbered the audience. Meanwhile, she checked hats at Lindy's, Leon & Eddie's, the Vanderbilt Hotel, the Old Rumanian Restaurant and Luchow...
...late to pick him. Bidding for grid fame instead, young Cobb, a halfback, has signed for a football grant-in-aid at Georgia Tech. Would Grandpa approve? Sure enough, says Charlie, recalling a long-ago story of the day Ty paid a visit to the eleven at Vanderbilt U.: "He put on the pads and made a touchdown the first time he got the ball...