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Millionairess Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 30, wife of sexagenarian Conductor Leopold Stokowski and self-admitted washout as an amateur actress at 16, starred before a sellout audience at Pennsylvania's Pocono Playhouse as the princess in Ferenc Molnar's The Swan. Consensus of the critics: "Nerveless poise." With Stoky's blessing, Gloria, mother of two and a painter of some commendable abstractions, suddenly found herself "enthusiastic about making the stage a career...
After a recent interview-luncheon for a story on Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt (TIME, July 5), Vanderbilt and Mehrtens found themselves at an impasse: both insisted on paying for the meal. Says Ruth: "I won that point of etiquette. I pointed out that after all she was my guest...
Anonymous Wires. Tennessee-born Grantland Rice graduated Vanderbilt University ('01) and got a job on the Nashville News. He covered the state Capitol and county courthouse, handled general assignments and covered sports. His salary: $5 a week. He concentrated on sportswriting, soon moved on to other papers. While on the Atlanta Journal, he was harried by anonymous telegrams and letters from Anniston, Ala., all carrying the same message: "Cobb is a real comer . . ." Skeptically, Rice traveled to Anniston and watched a youngster named Tyrus Raymond Cobb play semipro baseball. The next day he began writing stories about the undiscovered...
Petersburg-Havana, Havana-Key West, the Honolulu, and Detroit-Mackinac races; Lulu, winner of the Prince of Wales Cup in 1937; Nyala, winner of the Astor and King's Cups in 1939; Harold Vanderbilt's 12-meter Vim, winner of the same cups the next year; Goose, the outstanding international 6-meter for ten years; the New York Yacht Club's 325 and some 700 other yachts...
...Colony restaurant and see that half of the women are without hats, I can't say that you can't go into a restaurant without a hat." Amy's own life reflects the sociological change she feels has transformed fashion and etiquette. Born an authentic Vanderbilt (but not a Social Register one), Amy, 45, has three children and has married and divorced three husbands. She has been a book reviewer, an account executive and president of a public relations firm that represented clients as diverse as Ethiopia and the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers...