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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and son of Harry Payne Whitney. A devoted Democrat, he lent the National Committee money when things were at their gloomiest. "Sonny" Whitney helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is board chairman of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. and president of Whitney Industries, Inc., a New York State lumbering company. Since the election, Whitney has been promoted from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force to Under Secretary of Commerce...
...naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect TVA and Vanderbilt University's Institute for Brazilian Studies...
Married. Nancy Marie Whitney, 22, daughter of Under Secretary of Commerce Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and stepdaughter of ECA Ambassador W. Averell Harriman; and Edwin Dennison Morgan Jr., 28, working as copy boy on the New York Herald Tribune; in Arden...
...Chao was a Methodist when he came to the U.S. and finished his education at Vanderbilt University in 1917. Today he is an Anglican priest. He is well known in China as theologian and poet. When the Japanese jailed him in wartime for six months of solitary confinement and semi-starvation, he is said to have composed a new poem each day. At Amsterdam last summer he was elected one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches...
...Langdell Professor of Law; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; William A. Jackson, Professor of Bibliography and Assistant Librarian in charge of Houghton Library; Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University library; and presidents and librarians from Stanford University, University of California, and Amherst, Vanderbilt, and Oberlin Colleges...