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...overwhelming defeats at the hands of a seemingly invincible Tulane squad and a 5 to 4 triumph over a more normal Vanderbilt outfit was the lot of the Crimson tennis squad on its Southern trip over the spring vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TULANE TOPS TENNIS TEAM | 4/7/1942 | See Source »

...next day the Crimson found Vanderbilt a team in its own class, and the netmen won after a long, tough struggle. Captain Orme Wilson, Hugh Hyde, and Lindley Burton were the winners in singles matches, and the Jim Jenkins-Burton and Will Nicholl-Russ Ellis duets took doubles victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TULANE TOPS TENNIS TEAM | 4/7/1942 | See Source »

...lobby of Park Avenue's Drake Hotel, Pat di Cicco, husband of Gloria Vanderbilt, got to fighting with an Irish room clerk because the hotel would not lend him a pot to cook a chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Married. Swingster Benny Goodman, 32; and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 36, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, niece of ex-Ambassador to Spain Ogden Hammond; she for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev. She divorced Londoner George Arthur Victor Duckworth in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...their great Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan and at Newport, the Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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