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...Send me cigars-they are my food," Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius had said. This week, U.S. admirers had sent him 83 boxes of cigars (plus two humidors) for his 83rd birthday. Among the donors: Tallulah Bankhead, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Carmen Miranda, Thomas J. Watson, Sergei Koussevitzky, Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett. Said a spokesman for the National Arts Foundation, which is handling the collection: "We intend to keep Sibelius in cigars for life...
...Vanderbilt Upset the Cart...
...sons of Elihu met their Waterloo on October 23 when they collided with a strong and underrated Vanderbilt eleven. The Commodore powerhouse, making the most of a potent single wing formation, thrashed the Bulldogs, 35-0. Dartmouth heaped insult on injury with a 41-14 triumph the following week. The victory-hungry Blue finally rose up and squashed Kings Point 52-0 and then went on to make a real fight of it against Princeton before bowing in the last quarter...
Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, 30, balding son of the late Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean; and Manuela Hudson ("Molly") Vanderbilt, 34, brunette first wife of Millionaire Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; he for the third time, she for the second...
From Johns Hopkins he went to Vanderbilt, where he fas first associate professor of Medicine, until Harvard beckoned...