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There were precious few horseplayers who thought much of Dr. Vogeler's investment. Among the foreign entries, the Irish Republic's President Sean T. O'Kelly's Derby Winner Panaslipper was the people's choice; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Social Outcast was the homebred favorite. El Chama was an ill-favored long shot at about...
...Fordham, hustled through a round of conferences with such U.S. notables as Ralph Bunche, James A. Farley and United Fruit President Kenneth Redmond. At week's end the visitors were off on a U.S. tour that would include a friendly talk with Ike in Denver and the Vanderbilt-Tulane football game in New Orleans...
...scar of an express highway. It was time to move on. But before their old bar was closed, before the silver trophies were packed for shipment, Deepdale's members decided to hold one more tournament on the trim fairways that have known such diverse golfers as William K. Vanderbilt and Dwight Eisenhower, Bing Crosby and Bobby Jones...
...memory of its famed alumnus, Sportswriter Grantland Rice ('01), Vanderbilt University announced that each year it will award a fat scholarship to the highschool student it thinks "the likeliest prospect in America to become a fine sportswriter." Financed by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of the U.S., the scholarship will provide up to $1,800 for school expenses plus $500 for summer work in some phase of thoroughbred racing. Though Vanderbilt was not sure just how it would do the picking, it did make one stipulation: like Phi Bete Rice, the Rice of Tomorrow will take not journalism, but straight...
...Henry Hale Rand, 46, became president of International Shoe Co. of St. Louis, largest U.S. shoe manufacturer, succeeding his late brother, Edgar E. Rand. The third son of Frank Rand, one of the com pany founders, President Rand got a B.A. in economics at Vanderbilt University in 1929, joined the family firm as a laborer in a leather warehouse. 16 years later was elected a director. In 1948 he became vice president in charge of merchandising and production...