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...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and their clothes did splendidly in a preview of the first postwar silly season (June to September). A sudden spring tide of pressagents' panegyrations washed them each to glory: the multimillionaire sportsman to a place on the "best-dressed men" list of the Custom Tailors Guild of America; wife Jeanne to a place on the Fashion Academy's "best-dressed women" list. Jeanne, an heiress in her own right,* was one of those the Academy acclaimed for somehow managing to dress well on a budget...
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was getting nothing . . . nothing . . . for her wretched years of motherhood. She had been forced to sell a $75,000 diamond for $30,000. She was reduced to living in a $175-a-month Manhattan apartment. Last week tradesmen were boldly presuming to offer her jobs-the tabloid New York Daily News announced, with a frightful leer, that Reggie Vanderbilt's 40-year-old widow had been asked to peddle phonograph needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused...
...father), chose to suggest that her mother work for a living, and told the press what she was doing with her mother's former allowance of $21,000 a year. She was giving it to blind, homeless, needy children, "because I had an unhappy childhood." Cried Mrs. Vanderbilt: "Disgraceful...
William Randolph Hearst, 82, seemed to be getting all set. Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. snooped around San Simeon, Calif., reported workmen building "an atomic cellar for the stooped old gent to disappear into when the next great war comes along...
Concluding a wartime program that supplied 487 doctors to the armed forces, the Medical School will award degrees to 76 Army and 49 Navy students to be commissioned simultaneously tomorrow morning at Vanderbilt Hall...