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...other institutions, all for the sake of seeding the nation with more competent pedagogues than those now available. Last week's beneficiaries: Bucknell University. Central Michigan College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University. University of North Carolina. University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University. Wayne State University. All are hard at work on stepped-up programs following the Ford formula: end trivial, time-consuming "educationist" courses by broadening liberal education for teachers, and get them into classrooms faster...
Thus with a cynic's lullaby closed the final chapter-just 24 years ago this month-of one of the most tempestuous custody battles ever fought. The baby was eleven-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt, solemn-faced, button-cute heiress to a $4,000,000 trust fund, headlined in that Depression year as the "Poor Little Rich Girl." Mother was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, one of the most publicized Continental gadabouts of the day, who lost the fight for her daughter's custody-except for weekends (with Christmas and July tossed in)-to her sister-in-law, wealthy Art Patroness...
...about 3850 students attending the Summer School in 1959 will be socially treated to all the benefits of a three ring circus and some of the exclusivity of Mrs. Vanderbilt's legendary...
Crossing razor-edged affidavits in a Manhattan court. Heiress Gloria ("Poor Little Rich Girl") Vanderbilt Stokowski Lumet, 35, joined battle with her ex-husband, white-maned Leopold Stokowski, over custody arrangements for their two sons, Stan. 9, and Christopher, 7. Insisting that Stokowski is really 85 (72, he claims) and "seeks to be restored to the tyrannical and despotic power he asserted over me when we were married," Gloria, herself a onetime child-custody pawn, disclosed that she once warned Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly...
Cody has an Easterner to thank for its new museum, and a woman at that. One day in 1890, a young sculptress named Gertrude Vanderbilt went to see Colonel William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and his Wild West show, was so fascinated that she went backstage to ask the colonel if she could sketch some of his mustangs. It was the beginning of a lifelong interest in the West, which persisted even after her marriage to Financier Harry Payne Whitney. She sculpted a monumental statue of Buffalo Bill, in 1924 donated it to the town of Cody, along with...