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...others might have started a new round of bickering among the Justices. Federal Circuit Judges Orie L. Phillips of Colorado and John J. Parker of Virginia were considered too old-both will be 68 on the same day, next Nov. 20. New Jersey's Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt, 65, was known to be a hard driver, and might have serious trouble with the prima donnas on the high court. That left one name...
...scene). On his first show, he gabbed with Brooklyn Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella (just home from busting up the third World Series game) about his six kids, his baseball trophies and the good life in Queens, N.Y. That done, Murrow switched to Conductor Leopold Stokowski and his wife, Gloria Vanderbilt, who strolled about their Manhattan apartment explaining Gloria's paintings, flipping through a family photograph album, and showing off Stokowski's music room, which was cluttered with a collection of gongs (Gloria obligingly banged one). Although Murrow's intention to show "extraordinary people doing ordinary things" gives...
...Aqueduct race track, Alfred G. Vanderbilt announced that his great three-year-old colt Native Dancer, suffering from newly discovered bruises, will race no more this year...
...Belmont Park, prepping for the Sysonby Mile and "the race of the century" against Tom Fool, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer, still limping after an operation for an injured hoof, was withdrawn from all races until it heals. Possible rendezvous for the Dancer and Tom Fool: the Pimlico Special in late October...
...books he savagely dissected early American capitalism-in a predatory era when Cornelius Vanderbilt could write to his associates: "Gentlemen, you have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will ruin you." Veblen took a closer look at the people Marx called the ruling class, and produced a new label: the leisure class. The businessman, to Veblen, was a saboteur of the economy, because instead of just sticking to making goods, he tried to regulate output in order to make more money. Eventually, thought Veblen, the engineers would inherit the world...