Word: vanderbilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correct that James Still (River of Earth, TIME, Feb. 5) was "educated at Vanderbilt," but he, as did "better-known 'Mountaineer Poet,' Jesse Stuart," received his A. B. degree from Lincoln Memorial University...
...famed Oliver Wendell Holmeses (the author of Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the Supreme Court Justice), Owen Wister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (the Franklin Roosevelts go Fly Club). Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names...
Graduated from Vanderbilt in 1915 Stewart first became connected with the University nine years ago when he aided in the construction of Wigglesworth Hall. He is a construction engineer...
...gone into its transatlantic run, and Pan Am, so they thought, had grown too big for one boss. Last March Juan Trippe's wings were clipped. To by-pass most of his administrative functions, the Board named another man Chief Executive Officer: its chairman, polo-playing Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, one of the original Argonauts who backed Trippe 14 years ago and had been Trippe's friend through most of the great adventure...
...sense of what is fitting, in the best meaning of the word, is an invaluable attribute of a writer. Among other good qualities, it is one that James Still seems to have achieved. Born 30 years ago in the hills of Alabama, brought up in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt, Still has written some modest but unmistakable poetry (Hounds on the Mountain). River of Earth is his first novel. The problem it fairly solves is that faced by many Southern novelists: how to be sectional without being affected. The horizon in River of Earth is limited to Hardin County, Kentucky, simply...