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...neck faucets and the 27-piece George I silver toilet service, is already as surely a thing of the past as the stately English homes for which the objects were first fashioned. Gone is the era in which the lady of the mansion and her good friend Grace Vanderbilt, who lived across 86th Street, would be chauffeured around the block to visit (because a lady went no farther than from her door to the curb on foot...
...that every reader will be interested in his views on why it is good to have money, in the family album snapshots of his children and his recollections of the great. At one point Lambert tells the Einstein anecdote in which the Father of Relativity, asked by Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt if he likes yacht-racing, replies: "No, Mr. Vanderbilt, I am not interested in anything like that; it is so obvious that one of them must win." That was never obvious to the Father of Halitosis, who knows that to win takes skill (in sailing) and advertising (in business...
After a quiet six-week respite in a cozy Sun Valley chalet (owner: New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman), pretty Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, 33. second wife of Millionaire Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 44, won a divorce on the technical ground of "extreme mental cruelty." During the last fortnight of her legalistic Idaho residency, Jeanne and the children of her eleven-year marriage, Heidi, 8, and Alfred Jr., 6, had taken some "out-of-season" skiing lessons and more than one pratfall. Snapped by a Chicago lensman as she headed back to her "home" in New York. Jeanne looked...
...trouble with the iron lung and its portable little brother, the chest respirator, is that they make the patient breathe in a fixed rhythm and give him just the same amount of air each time. Now researchers at Nashville's Vanderbilt University report an electronic device which can be hooked up to either type of respirator and lets the patient breathe more naturally-when his own nervous system dictates, and as deeply. It works by electrodes taped to the chest: they pick up electrical nerve impulses intended for the paralyzed breathing muscles, divert them to an electrical amplifier which...
Newly elected trustees on the high-level board are Chancellor Harvie Brans-comb of Vanderbilt University and President James R. Killian, Jr. of M.I.T. They will fill vacancies created by the retirement from university presidencies of Oliver C. Carmichael of the University of Alabama and Harold W. Dodds of Princeton...