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Katherine Dunham, rhythmic Negro choreographer (Tropical Revue), stepped high into Manhattan's swank East Seventies, bought a $200,000, 30-room mansion which she will turn into a dancing school. Neighbors in the same block: the Frick museum and a Vanderbilt town house...
...Olasen earned his M.D. from the University of Iceland in 1938 and an M.P.H. from Vanderbilt University in 1943. Before he had been reported lost at sea on November 17, Dr. Olasen had completed his requirements for the Harvard degree. Working in the special field of Nutrition, he wrote a thesis entitled, "Vitamin A and Cancer...
Born. To Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 45, well-fixed U.S. Army Air Forces Plans Division officer; and his third wife, Eleanor Searle Whitney; 35, oratorio singer: their (and her) first child, his fourth, a son; in Manhattan. Name Cornelius Searle. Weight...
Died. Sigourney Thayer, 47, comical, acidulous son of the late Headmaster William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School, World War I aviator, later Vultee Aircraft executive, husband of Socialites Emily Davies Vanderbilt and Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell; in an automobile accident ; in Allentown...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, tiaraed Queen of New York's and Newport's Old Guard society, won a new title when her partygoing set started a parlor-game fad of tagging socialites with appropriate literary titles. She is now known to her intimates as the Queen of Sheba...