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Vice President José Guizado, 55, who moved up to the presidency, is a millionaire contractor, educated at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, and another good friend of the U.S. But he is in poor health and lacks Chichi's tough-minded energy. Remón's death thus created a vacuum in politics as well as at the head of the National Guard. Arnulfo Arias, if he is freed, may seize the chance to whip up his followers for a new try at the presidency. Guard officers will have to recalculate their loyalties. Between political demagoguery...
...1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000,000, and nobody seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo...
...Citizenship Clearning House a national organization sponsored by New York University and paid for a by Judge Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, attempts to interest college students in politics...
...love Cuba-this does not imply a dislike for anyplace else-and because here I can get privacy when I write." But his life in Cuba is not quiet. Guests at the finca are apt to include friends from the wealthy sporting set, say Winston Guest or Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; pals from Hollywood, such as Gary Cooper or Ava Gardner; Spanish grandees, soldiers, sailors, Cuban politicians, prizefighters, barkeeps, painters and even fellow authors. It is open house for U.S. Air Force and Navy men, old Loyalists from the Spanish civil war, or for any of the eight Cubans, Spaniards...
...Harrimans were married in 1930, not long after her divorce from wealthy Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and Harriman's divorce from Kitty Lawrance Harriman (who died in 1936). Each has two children by the earlier marriage. *Son of an Anglican bishop, home-tutored until he was 14, Montgomery bulled his way through London's venerable St. Paul's School as a distinguished athlete, went on to Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, where he graduated 3Oth in his class...