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WHRB has begun the new term with several improvements in its broadcasting facilities, including the extension of its coverage to the Vanderbilt Hall Medical School dormitory in Boston. Network programs can now reach every dormitory in the University...
...This week the season's first big horse race-the $50,000 Santa Margarita Handicap-will be run at Santa Anita, California's finest track. The two probable favorites, Bed o' Roses and Next Move, both belong to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt...
ALTHOUGH Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's background is New York and Social Register, he was born in England ("I think mother miscalculated") and he has spent much of his 39 years working, in slacks and sweater, around horses. He lasted through only a year and a half of Yale, and then quit because he thought he knew what he wanted-"Fortunately I was right; I wanted race track...
...When Vanderbilt came into racing, he was determined not to act like a man who was heir to $8,500,000 and a high social background. In this endeavor his appearance was no handicap. A tall, weedy man with the slouchy good looks of a boy down from school, he fitted in easily with the working side of race-track life. He could be found of mornings consorting with exercise boys, grooms, dockers and indescribables around the back stretch of various race tracks. Later, when he got into the management of Baltimore's Pimlico track, he did something that...
...Chairman William Paley an idea for gingering up a radio show, and as a reward gets all of Columbia's classical and semi-classical record releases. On other occasions, too, he has displayed unsuspected talents. When CBS was stuck for a commentator in its early telecasts of racing, Vanderbilt handled the first few shows capably. "I got a good notice from Crosby," he says. And during an early acquaintance with Ernest Hemingway, he became adept at handling the tablecloth when Hemingway decided to play bullfight. Vanderbilt has achieved an enviable balance between not having enough to do to keep...