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Seventeen students are now living in a wing of Vanderbilt Hall renovated over the summer to serve as the first women's dormitory in the history of the Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School Gives Dormitory to Women | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

...Deanery, the section of Vanderbilt Hall which was remodeled, was originally intended for use by the Deans of the Medical School, but it has never been used for that purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School Gives Dormitory to Women | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

Bridge lovers will appreciate your Goren article in the Sept. 29 issue. But you seem to credit the increased slam bonuses to Mr. Vanderbilt and some of his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Seizing on the "ceiling" principle, Vanderbilt added an idea of his own: a partnership would have to bid a slam in order to get a slam bonus (in both plafond and U.S.-British auction, the bonus was awarded whether the slam was bid or not). The mechanics and scoring of the new game-with slam bonuses increased tenfold and more-were worked out by Vanderbilt and three card-playing friends on a cruise to Havana in November 1925. Contract was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Aces | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 46, multimillionaire sportsman, and third wife Jean Harvey Vanderbilt, 21: their first child (his fourth), a son; in Manhattan. Name: Nicholas Harvey. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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