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...road to fame & fortune at 16. Lee Frayer, manager of the Frayer-Miller Automobile Company, advertised his product by racing it. He took tough, skinny, worshipful Eddie Rickenbacker, already a crack mechanic, to Garden City, Long Island, to ride with him in the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Eddie found it an intoxicating experience. For the next six years -grease-stained, speed-mad, and thirsting for glory like an Osage brave-he crisscrossed the continent as a combination car salesman, trouble shooter, racing mechanic and dirt-track driver. Then, at 22, he hit for the big time...
...Frederick J. Lawton, who will succeed Pace, is a 49-year-old career civil servant who joined the Government at 19 as a Census Bureau clerk, has been Pace's Assistant Director of the Budget. ¶ Under Secretary of Commerce Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 51, quit to "get a rest," tend to his own business (mines, lumber, and a fine stable of race horses...
Call of the Wild. In Nashville, members of Vanderbilt University's Kappa Alpha Order (Southern) eagerly chased what they thought was their deodorized pet skunk, name of General Sherman, learned too late it was another skunk...
...with an A.B. from Vanderbilt, Ed Rand went to work in his father's factory sorting leather; two years later he became a leather buyer. After a wartime hitch with OPA, WPB and SPAB, where he had charge of selling millions of surplus Army shoes, Rand went back to International as boss of production, merchandising and distribution, was made a vice president in 1947. The company he went back to had mushroomed from one plant in 1898 to 55 factories, eight tanneries, a rubber plant and a cotton mill, with 35,000 employees and 12,000 stockholders. International Shoe...
...list: Prince Aly Khan, for going to the races in yellow socks, orange shoes and a green tie. A close sec ond: Texas' Senator Tom Connolly (for looking "like a country bumpkin" while heading for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee). Runners-up: Manhattan Socialite Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (for not buying a new hat "in the last twelve years"); Wrestler Gorgeous George (chiefly for his peroxide curls...