Word: vanderbilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cicco, cafe-famed as Gloria Vanderbilt's husband, also as a onetime "assistant wolf," took a double-barreled beating in a Manhattan nightclub. Di Cicco, an Army Air Forces lieutenant, was amusing himself by loudly abusing a small, meek newspaperman. A quiet Texan by the name of Benny Bickers objected. Di Cicco called him something, neglected to smile. Benny knocked him down. Di Cicco left the club, waited for Bickers in the street. When the Texan came out, di Cicco took off his coat, put up his dukes. Benny knocked him down again. What di Cicco learned the hard...
...into Mr. OCR's new boss, William Yandell Elliott, is big (6 ft. 2 in.), barrel-chested, fond of using his booming voice. Born in Tennessee, he went to Vanderbilt University, left it to serve abroad in World War I as a field artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that...
Elliott, a graduate of Vanderbilt and author of several books interpretating current history, commutes to Cambridge once a week to give Government...
Meadow Larks. At Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, Mrs. Hitchcock trained young poloists most of her adult life. When Tommy was ten she organized the Meadow Larks. Among them: F. Skiddy von Stade Jr., Raymond and Winston Guest, Mike Phipps, Douglas Burden, Pete Bostwick, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney. Lean, vigorous, hard-riding Mrs. Hitchcock broke her ankle in a riding accident when she was 61, broke an arm the next year, had her last fall at 68 when her horse balked at a stiff hurdle, threw her, broke her neck...
Drinking was a trial. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. reported from Miami that he paid $4 for a pony of Bisquit brandy, $2.50 for a Stinger cocktail. One liquor store asked $50 for a thimble-sized bottle of Cointreau. In the Miami Herald a diamond broker advertised a choice selection of bracelets and pendants at from $18,000 to $70,000, tax included...