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Whitney, who had just divorced Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney. The Harrimans observed their 25th wedding anniversary last February...
Artist-Poetess-Actress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, was signed up by a sometime escort, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank (The Tender Trap) Sinatra, to make her movie debut as leading lady in Star-Producer Sinatra's first Western, Johnny Concho. In the script, Gloria will snap at Frankie: "I'll marry you only when you grow up!" At week's end, Gloria, who married long-maned Maestro Leopold Stokowski in 1945 when he was 63 and bore him two sons, flew to Juarez and signed off as his wife...
...first time how he had happened to buy the Central stock. It was, he insisted, a strictly run-of-the-mill investment, and not a slick maneuver to help Young win the Central. In fact, said Murchison, he had even done his best to see if Harold S. Vanderbilt, then a Central director bitterly opposed to Young, had first wanted to buy the 800,000 shares owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Drawled
Murchison: "There was a rumor in Texas Vanderbilt wanted to buy these shares. I got [my lawyer] to go to Vanderbilt. He said the rumor was fiction." With that, Murchison went ahead with the deal. He asked Partner Sid Richardson, one of the world's richest oilmen, to come in with him because $20 million "occurred to me as a pretty big bite to take alone." Well, how much was Mr. Murchison worth? asked court-appointed Referee Robert J. Fitzsimmons. Answered Murchison : "About five, six or seven million." As it turned out, though, he did not need any money...
When he heard of Murchison's testimony, ex-Central Director Vanderbilt told a diametrically opposite story. He admitted that he had indeed seen Murchison's lawyer, but flatly denied that he had said he had no interest in buying the Central stock. Snapped Vanderbilt: "I not only never made any such statement, but I was interested in buying said shares when I saw him. I shortly afterwards made an offer to purchase all of said stock for $20 million...