Word: vanderbilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, 68, head of the Vanderbilt clan, great-grandson of Founder "Commodore" Cornelius; of a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard the yacht Ambassadress; in the City Basin at Miami. Reserved, plodding, famed for his Vandyke beard and his yachts,* he was an inventor (30 devices for improving freight cars and locomotives), a soldier (Mexican border and World War I), financier (banks, railroads, traction companies). A graduate of Yale, where he was a slow but steady student, he started tinkering early in the shops of the Vanderbilt-controlled New York Central, made a point of visiting them periodically...
...their great Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan and at Newport, the Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach...
Watching treaty making in Paris, they decided that the world they had known was finished, determined to go off together to some lonely place to write. Their first lonely place turned out to be New England. William Kissam Vanderbilt, who largely financed the Lafayette Flying Corps, commissioned them to write its official history. Then Harper's offered Hall a contract to visit the South Seas and write travel stories. Nordhoff wangled "some sort of contract" out of the Atlantic. They set off for Australia, touched at Tahiti, made their home there...
Errol Flynn, Prince David Mdivani, "Prince Mike" Romanoff were in the crowded cast of another cafe scuffle in Hollywood. Occasion: a party for Gloria Vanderbilt and Pasquale di Cicco the night before their wedding (see p. 43). What happened: shoving, wrestling, crawling on the floor. Among the crawlers: Lupe Velez. Flynn dragged Mdivani and Romanoff out of a scrimmage. Flynn's next role: Fighter James J. Corbett. He denied any connection...
Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, playful descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, turned up in the Army, at Fort Meade, Md. He had been missing since the middle of October, shortly after he wed café-daffy Leonore Lemmon. A rubber-check charge long pending against him has been dropped...