Word: vanderbilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got up a petition; Mrs. Vanderbilt and some of the other best people signed it. The junkman's yard was a fire hazard, said they. That did it. The junkman tidied up. Now it was just like the good days of 1929. That was the other time he tidied...
...Gloria Vanderbilt, three months after Daughter Gloria cut off her $21,000 a year competence (TIME, March 25), carried out her threat to open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue...
Back in 1939, Pan Am's directors, led by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, staged the first revolt. They had forced Trippe to give up some of his power, and to agree to appoint an executive vice president to take charge of Pan Am's flying operations. The peacemakers at that time were Colt and Morgan...
Married. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire sportsman, explorer, big-game hunter, ex-PT boat commander; and Anita Zabala Howard, 41; both for the second time; at Arcadia, the Vanderbilt plantation in Charleston...
Divorced. By Consuelo Vanderbilt Warburton, daughter of the late William Kissam Vanderbilt: her third husband, William John Warburton, Manhattan broker; after 5½ years of marriage, no children; in Reno...