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Married. Gail Whitney, 22, daughter of Millionaire Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Louis Stur, 36, Hungarian-born former economics teacher, now assistant manager of the Sun Valley (Idaho) Lodge, Gail's home since her 1959 divorce from Plymouth Oil Heir Richard Cowell; in Elko, Nevada...
...Strongman Fulgencio Batista, Smith early recognized Fidel Castro as a pro-Communist fanatic but underestimated the strength and public support of Castro's rebel band-an oversight that helped fan the smoldering embers of Cuba's anti-Americanism. Smith left Yale after two years, married Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1926. Twice divorced (second wife was Mimi Elaine Richardson), Smith is now married to Florence Pritchett, television personality and sometime clothes designer...
...church's links with its schools have customarily consisted of the right to name some trustees, the obligation of supplying some funds, and some degree of Christian educational influence. Some schools have slipped their Methodist moorings: Baltimore's Goucher, Connecticut's Wesleyan, Nashville's Vanderbilt, and Southern California-often because meddlesome bishops irked trustees and professors. Some colleges were picked up from other churches, for example, Pennsylvania's Allegheny and Dickinson, which fell on hard times after being started by Presbyterians. But after 1900, the Methodists seemed to lose direction...
...September, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier were married by Boston's Cardinal (then Archbishop) Gushing in a Newport extravaganza that moved society columnists to transports of joy. There were 26 groomsmen and bridesmaids, 700 guests (ranging from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to Marion Davies) at the nuptial Mass and 900 at the reception...
Seldom has a millionaire registered such deeply visible disappointment at not achieving another million as Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney did during a race at Louisville's Churchill Downs last week. Only one stable in U.S. turf annals has racked up such mountainous winnings in one year of racing (Calumet Farm has turned the trick six times). In Louisville, Whitney and fourth wife Mary had had high hopes of cracking the million mark with their grey filly, Bright Silver. Whitney was short of his goal by only $3,399, and the winner's purse in the race...