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...Wideners and Sinclairs spent millions on the sport of kings, no stable had ever corralled such a fancy crop of horseflesh. Calumet's clear profit this year will top $600,000 (before taxes). The only other fancy U.S. stable likely even to finish in the black is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's (which has Phalanx, winner of $236,400, on its team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Died. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton Vanderbilt, 50, second wife* of the late William K. Vanderbilt II (former president of the New York Central Railroad and brother of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, onetime Duchess of Marlborough); after long illness; in Northport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Died. Glenn Allan Millikan, 40, mountain-climbing physiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, son of Nobel Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Robert A. Millikan; when a rock fell on him while he was scaling a cliff; in Pikesville, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Whose mother, Lady Furness, is Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski's aunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...fortnight ago Central's President Gustav Metzman called Young to ask if he could come and see Young at his winter home in Palm Beach. Neither Metzman nor Central's Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt had to be told that Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had become by far the largest single owner of Central's stock. C. & O.'s holdings, which were reported at 315,000 shares, were now up to 400,000, about 7% of all shares outstanding. Vanderbilt and Metzman went to Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Bob Young Moves In | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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