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...Vanderbilt alumni were desperately trying to get rid of a coach. After two successive 2-9 seasons, wealthy alums raised $100,000 worth of walking money for Head Coach Fred Pancoast. The total included his $40,000 salary for the remaining two years of his contract, plus a $20,000 bonus for bowing out. There are no greener pastures open to 4-18 coaches, however, so Pancoast turned down the offer. Said he: "I'm the head coach of Vanderbilt until I'm told otherwise." Vanderbilt President Emmett Fields backed Pancoast, asserting that the university would not break...
...look good, we don't look good." Some of Rogers' other sparkling one-liners include "It's got to be a Maximilian" for Maximilian furs; "When your own initials are enough" for Bottega Veneta, the leather goods company; "You never had it so good for so little" (Gloria Vanderbilt $26 blouses); "There's a little Blanche in every woman" for Blanche lingerie...
Despite all these precautionary steps, the Women's Varsity soccer squad yesterday still thrashed its opponent, hapless Curry, 5-0, taking 39 shots while Curry managed only two. Even Amy Vanderbilt couldn't chastise it for its coarse manners...
Soon after that landmark encounter, Duncan Cryder, who had been a member of Vanderbilt's party, sounded out another Southampton resident named Samuel Parrish, who was then vacationing in Italy, about the possibility of introducing golf in Southampton. Parrish hurriedly arranged for Willie Dunn to get a passage on a steamship so he could come to Southampton and begin building a golf course at once...
...Vanderbilt, who moved with more than a little panache through the sporting set, watched Dunn hit a few shots and then turned to the members of his entourage to pass judgment on the newly discovered game. "Gentlemen," he said, "this beats rifle shooting for distance and accuracy. It is a game I think would go in our country...