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...floats. He is rich, wavy-haired Wing Commander Whitney Willard Straight, 28, son of the late Major Willard D. Straight, unorthodox Morgan banker who founded and funded the New Republic. Wing Commander Straight is a grandson of the late traction tycoon William C. Whitney, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
...Somerville (R. T. Vanderbilt Co.-Manhattan chemical distributors...
...Gloria Vanderbilt, now 17 and quite grown up, has been doing Hollywood so hard that most of her $25,750-a-year allowance is reported spent within six months. ≤≤ Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, ex-"bad boy" mayor of Newburyport, Mass., was sentenced to nine months in jail for libeling an Ipswich judge in his weekly paper, ≤≤ Charles ("Mickey) Norman, who hit the front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime...
...Vanderbilt Clinic, and from reports of the same treatment throughout the U.S., Dr. Elsbach has observed the reactions of 75 patients of all ages. Results: 53 cases were cured, 21 improved; only one stubborn patient kept on sneezing...
Romance of the week broke in tiny Plymouth, Ohio, where Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, married the village doctor's daughter, pretty Eleanor Searle, 32. Surprised as anybody was The New Yorker, whose Whitney profile appeared next day with not a mention of the bride. When they met in 1937 she was a receptionist at Pan American Airways, he the polo-playing, twice married chairman of the board. She had come to Manhattan some seven years before to study singing as the protégée of aged Impresario Dan Frohman, who hailed from nearby Sandusky...