Word: vanderbilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that galleries are barred from tournament bridge. For last week's final in Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre was one long to be remembered. The most prized team-of-four trophy in bridge, the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup, was at stake...
Missing this year from the 27-team entry list were Donor Vanderbilt (who had twice been on the winning team), Oswald Jacoby and the late Jimmy Maier (members of the famed Four Aces), several other hardy competitors. So the team to beat was a young foursome headed by a frail little honey blonde, 31-year-old Helen Martin Sobel...
Wealthy Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney decided to tear down the Harry Payne Whitney house-one of the last great mansions left on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue. Her husband willed it to her at his death in 1930 but she rarely lived there. A limestone and marble pile with ceilings imported from Italian palaces, a ballroom 63 ft. long and 45 ft. high, it was decorated by the late, famed Stanford White. All its furnishings and every fixture that can be detached will be aucioned off April 29 and 30. Among the furnishings: paintings by Gainsborough and Van Dyck...
...Crimson racquetmen defeated Vanderbilt, 5-4, and lost to Tulane 9-0 and 5-2 during their recent spring trip, while Penn has taken the measure of Swarthmore...
Multimillionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 29-year-old president of Belmont Park and of Pimlico, resigned his presidencies, applied for a commission as lieutenant, junior grade, in the Naval Reserve...