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...Program for Harvard College passed its $82.5 million goal, boosted over the top by a last minute, $2.5 million gift from Harold S. Vanderbilt '07, President Pusey stated yesterday. Pusey termed his announcement "the most momentous which has ever fallen...
Despite the drama surrounding it, however, Vanderbilt's contribution, made last week, accounted for only a quarter of the more than $10 million received by the Program since mid-November. Together, three well-timed donations brought the Program total, in cash and pledges...
Died. Margaret Mary Emerson, 75, Bromo-Seltzer heiress who kept high society agog with her array of rich husbands: 1) Smith Hollins McKim, a physician; 2) Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who went down with the Lusitania; 3) Raymond T. Baker, a Nevada prison warden who became director of the Mint; 4) Charles Minot Amory, a playboy; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Harvard '39) has spent most of his postgraduate years doggedly following society's international trail. Somewhere between Boston and Bar Harbor he lost the scent, concluded gloomily that society was dead. "I realized," said Amory, "that the celebrity world overcame the society world-nobody looks at Mrs. Vanderbilt's pearls any more; they just want to see what Marlene Dietrich is wearing...
When Mrs. Eddie Fisher's singing husband opened at the Waldorf's Empire Room in Manhattan last week, she decided to make it a party. To the midnight show (the earlier dinner show is considered on the square side) she asked 72 guests, including Gloria Vanderbilt, Ingemar Johansson, aging Aly Khan and his durable friend, French Model Bettina, Arthur Loew Jr. (of the movie Loews) and his bride, who is Tyrone Power's widow. A strict seating plan enforced by flacks and headwaiters deployed the guests at six reserved tables, each equipped with three massive tins...