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...swirl of white feathers, a dazzle of rhinestones and a white Adolfo dress that seemed pasted to her, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper outswanned them all at the Swan Ball in Nashville, Tenn. She was not there for social swimming, she explained, but for Art-an exhibit of her collages and drawings at the Tennessee Fine Arts Center. It was Gloria's fine-line slimness, though, that caught the eye. What magic diet had brought her 5 ft. 7½ in. down to 98 Ibs.? "It just happened," she told Columnist Eugenia Sheppard. "In the mornings I just drank...
...middle of the floor-and little else. The new main room held a billiard table -and nothing else. The ceilings concealed tiny spotlights to illuminate pictures on the walls. But there were no pictures on the walls. The Nolde watercolor, the Kokoschka drawing and the Gloria Vanderbilt paintings were stacked up somewhere, awaiting the decision that their owner could not make. The Wurlitzer jukebox was loaded with records but remained unplugged...
...suggest that William Vanderbilt's words of 1882 have any meaning today seems like gallows humor. The Interstate Commerce Commission reports that five of the nation's 69 major railroads are broke and another 17 are near bankruptcy. Yet among this snarled wreckage, some railroads are making money. None is more profitable than the Norfolk and Western, an operator of freight and commuter lines, mostly in the East, that has $728 million in revenues...
Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 72, called a press conference to tell the world that even though he had not been asked to fill the vacant post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain, he was not going to take the job because the ten-month period remaining until the presidential election was too short "to enable me to accomplish anything enduring." After November, though, if anybody cares, "I speak tourist Spanish with a Mexican accent, but I'm taking lessons...
...Harvard Medical School is being plagued by a rash of crimes--robberies, muggings and murders. Both students and administration are taking steps to counter the rise in crime, especially in the area around Vanderbilt Hall on Avenue Louis Pasteur, in Roxbury...