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...November the class took time out to elect new officers and chose Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr., president; Alfred H. Miller, vice-president; and Frederick Vanderbilt Field, secretary-treasurer...
...playing field, the Junior practiced his chariest on in preparation for the Prom, which was being planned by John time were the Student Council elections. The officers for the next year would be Leo Francis Daley, president: John Randolph Burke, vice-president: Henry S. Wood bridge, secretary; and Frederick Vanderbilt Field, treasurer...
Undergraduates were also arguing about America's entry into the World Court. They listened to Lowell's plea for U.S. participation and made Frederick Vanderbilt Field chairman of a student council investigating committee. It would have taken quite a class oracle to prophecy where the popular Field's international interests would finally lead...
Close the Eyes. There are lively descriptions of the early Vanderbilt Cup races, in 1904, 1905 and 1910, which were denounced from the pulpit but drew crowds like a magnet: "Louis Chevrolet wrapped his Fiat around a telegraph pole on Willis Avenue . . . Harold Stone, driving a Columbia, leapt the Meadowbrook bridge and shot into the mob, killing his mechanic and injuring a mixed bag of bystanders...
EARLY last year Michael Romanoff, who was building a new restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif., found himself in need of more funds to finish the job. With his usual aplomb, Mr. Romanoff cabled his old friend Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, then vacationing in Honolulu, and asked if he might borrow $25,000. The money arrived the next morning, accompanied by a note which read: "I'm always pleased to serve my King...