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...after tomorrow we play Vanderbilt, I'll let you read about that one in the papers. The southern boys play for keeps-they're not in the tradition of ivy league ball. With three starters injured for the game to begin with (not to speak of four second-stringers), I just hope we get out of Saturday's massacre-to-be relatively alive. Captain Bob Peters may injure his right shoulder for keeps this time, and that would he very, very sad, Vanderbilt should beat us by a comfortable margin, thank you. (Vanderbilt won this game...

Author: By Topper Cook and Daily Princetonian, S | Title: HARLOW TACTICS TO PUZZLE NASSAU BULLIES, 'DAILY' SAYS | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

...team which in the first half of its season has chalked up the skimpy total of seven points. Princeton's record, however, is even less inspiring; for after an opening victory over Williams, of the Little Three, the Bengals have proceeded to bow to Columbia, Penn, and Vanderbilt. In last week's debacle, the sons of Old Nassan were snowed under by the catastrophic count of 46 to 7 by the unbeaten minions of Vanderbilt in a game played at Nashville...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, 23 (great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt), who last year was married for seven weeks, ran off with Manhattan's playful Lenore Lemmon, 18, to Moncks Corner, S.C. The bride, a refugee from Manhattan's Stork Club-excommunicated for scene-raising-had a bottle opener for a wedding ring. Blonde Vivian Stokes, 18, who canceled her debut after Jakie announced he would wed her, got the news of the elopement while she waited for Jakie in a nightclub. Said the ex-fiancée impetuously: "Jakie can have his Lemmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Whitney, John Hay Whitney's exwife, and Gwladys Hopkins Whitney, ex of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, helped form a lobby in Washington against a proposal to tax ex-wives for the alimony they get and let ex-husbands deduct the alimony they pay. Dropped once, the measure is due to reappear. Camel-lipped Character George Arliss appeared before the Lord Mayor of London, was fined $18,000 for not registering with the Bank of England some $52,000 worth of U.S. and Canadian securities. The onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Patty Berg? | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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