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...give each region of the nation more great private institutions. The winners: California's Stanford ($25 million), Indiana's Notre Dame ($6,000,000), Maryland's Johns Hopkins ($6,000,000), Colorado's Denver ($5,000,000) and Tennessee's Vanderbilt ($4,000,000). It was the biggest single Ford gift since the 1955 windfall that boosted faculty salaries across the land by $500 million...
...Vanderbilt's Chancellor Harvie Branscomb, 66, a Methodist theologian, has ably integrated the Nashville campus (3,700 students) despite such problems as the recent crisis over the expulsion of a Negro divinity student. Most of Vanderbilt's initial Ford money will go into its prestigious law school...
Died. Dr. Ernest William Goodpasture, 73, top U.S. pathologist and longtime Vanderbilt University Medical School professor, who in 1931 first propagated viruses in chick embryos and thus pioneered the large-scale production of vaccines against yellow fever, influenza and typhus, but never patented the process that otherwise would undoubtedly have earned him millions; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn...
...handsome young advocate of free love and magnetic healing, added considerable spice to the suffrage cause. With her beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights with...
Westport, Conn., Country Playhouse: First U.S. performance of Ugo Betti's The Burnt Flower Bed, starring Eric Portman, Signe Hasso and Gloria Vanderbilt...