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Boatswain Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, U.S.N., turned 30, automatically came into another $5,000,000 from the estate of his father, Alfred Sr., who sank with the Lusitania in 1915. The millionaire bos'n got his first share at 21, his second at 25, will get his fourth installment at 35. "This is the life," said he. "I like my work very much. I'm just another fellow in the Navy now." Laura Mae Corrigan, 60, wealthy U.S. expatriate who became known as "the American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work...
Born on a Tennessee farm of Scotch-Welsh parents, McGill worked his way through Vanderbilt University (where he played star tackle and belonged to the famed literary group of "Fugitives"), took time out to fight with the Marines in World War I. At political odds with the chancellor, he left shortly before the end of his senior year, went to the Nashville Banner as sports editor under his fellow classman (now publisher) James Geddes Stahlman. He originated a popular, Will Rogerish column called I'm the Gink, branched into political writing with prodigious energy. Shortly after going...
Harold S. Vanderbilt turned over to Navy Relief $300,000 paid him by the U.S. for his 117-foot yacht Vagrant, now serving in the Navy...
While wealthy, much-married Mrs. Margaret Emerson, mother of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, was at the Saratoga races, fire broke out in her 24-room mansion at Sands Point, L.I., reduced it to a topless shell. Saved: some family portraits, a few other art works, a set of ebony chairs...
...Allen, R. H. '44, Eliot K-53 ELI 2545 Allport, A. W. '45, Eliot M-41 KIR 7192 Andrews, S. B. '46, Adams D-33 KIR 3314 Appleton, J. J. '46, Eliot C-12 TRO 2988 Arnold, D. B., Jr. '44, Owl Club KIR 6166 Atchley, W. A. 1M., Vanderbilt 137 ASP 4411 Atkins, C. '46, Dunster K-32 TRO 7681 Aulet, H. B. '45, Winthrop D-42 ELI 2320 Axon, Thomas '44, Leverett D-51 TRO 1439 Ayres, T. R. '45, Winthrop B-42 ELI 2164 B Baer, T. S. '44, Lowell N-24 KIR 2498 Baird...