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Tomorrow evening at 3 o'clock, John C. Ransom, professor of English at Vanderbilt University and Kenyon College, will read some of his own poetry in Emerson...
...Delhi, sandy-haired Socialite Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps...
Needling the Vanderbilts. Socialites mortally feared him. Arrogantly independent toward everyone but Hearst advertisers and his friends, whom he shamelessly plugged in his column, he built up his reputation by conducting fabulous feuds with important people. Once the late Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, irked at his constant references to her as "the daughter of a '49er," met him in a nightclub and scolded: "You are a rude, scurrilous man." "Yes, I am," he replied, "but I'd rather make a living that way than by selling bonds." For years he needled Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt by calling...
Divorced. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 29, ex-sportsman, multimillionaire boatswain U.S.N.R.; by Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt, 28; quickly (in ten minutes), quietly (the records were sealed); in Reno. She first sued for divorce in New York last August on grounds of adultery, dropped the suit in the face of publicity...
Multimillionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt enlisted in the Navy, was made a bos'n, but kept his Manhattan apartment open to keep his servants busy...