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Social Mannerist Amy Vanderbilt, who as the U.S.'s leading lecturer on etiquette has gamely smiled at many a photographer's bidding, returned from her latest tour to report a minor sociological phenomenon: regional differences among photographers in the word they ask their subjects to say in order to produce an animated expression. In Hollywood, reports Miss Vanderbilt, the favorite word is ''sex." In the Midwest, it is "cheese." In the South, "honey" or "really." In Manhattan, "money...
Social Fixture. A Saratoga fixture since 1917, the annual yearling sale is a major social event for the horsy set draws many foreign breeders and such urbane U.S. turfmen as Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, C. V. Whitney and George D. Widener. But among the pavilion crowd last week were also trainers, curious tourists and nervous $2 bettors hungry for a potential thoroughbred of their own. Clutching handbooks that detailed the bloodlines of each horse, they prowled the cluster of well-maintained barns, while grooms obligingly paraded the 267 sleek yearlings for inspection. Most drew only a cursory glance. But others...
Died. George Vanderbilt III, 47, adventurer-ichthyologist brother of Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt with whom he shared part of a massive railroad fortune founded by Great-Great-Grandfather Cornelius ("Commodore") Vanderbilt; of a fall from his tenth-floor suite in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel...
...life for U.S. Negroes. Lawson does as he teaches. Born in Pennsylvania, he spent most of a year in a federal penitentiary as a conscientious objector, studied with Gandhi during his three years as a student missionary in India. Last June, over the protests of 112 members of the Vanderbilt faculty, Lawson was expelled from the university's divinity school (TIME, June 13, 1960) for advocating civil disobedience to fellow students who took part in Nashville's sit-in campaigns. Lawson went on to get his degree from Boston University, now is pastor of the Scott Chapel Methodist...
Nashville calls itself the "Athens of the South." It has twelve universities and colleges, including Vanderbilt ("the Princeton of the South") and Fisk University ("the Ivy League of Southern Negro colleges"). It has Protestant churches of all sorts and sects, and it has . more than its share of social-and racial-relations groups, led by the Nashville Community Relations Conference, an organization of some 400 citizens dedicated to "equal justice under the law, and a true brotherhood of man." If Nashville's white merchants remain segregationists at heart, they have at least learned to become pocketbook integrationists...