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...Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt reported that men are now required to wear ties at Miami niteries. Tieless men can rent...
...Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, often good for a column but never before a columnist, wrote a page of chatter for the New York Journal-American's syndicated magazine Home. Sample: the day after he first met his wife (Actress Carol Marcus), William Saroyan wrote her a poem called Snow. It began: "You are out of the snow of the past-the most beautiful thing in all the snow-the most delicate-the most alone...
Died. Cathleen Vanderbilt Arostegui, 39, socialite fifth-generation descendant of the legendary Commodore; of a kidney ailment, in Havana, Cuba. In 1924 Mrs. Arostegui shared with her half sister Gloria Vanderbilt (now Mrs. Pasquale di Cicco) the bulk of an estimated $7,000,000 estate...
Married. Pfc. Derick Vanderbilt Webb, 30, fifth-generation descendant of famed dynast Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Elizabeth Bigelow Canfield, 19, young est child of the late socialite Manhattan lawyer George Folger Canfield; in Manhattan...
Died. William Kissam Vanderbilt, 65, multimillionaire sportsman; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. The high-domed, twice-married great-grandson of the New York Central Railroad's fabulous Founder Cornelius Vanderbilt was burdened by the railroad's presidency for only one year (1918-19). In 1904 he started and refereed the first Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race (the winner averaged 52 m.p.h.), in World War I commanded the U.S.S. Tarantula with the hand of a longtime yachtsman. Famed as the footloose owner of the $3,000,000 diesel yacht Alva (his 1941 gift to the Navy), he studied hard...