Word: vanderlip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Tommy Burns (real name: Noah Brusso), 65, onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1906-08); and Nellie Susan Vanderlip, 65, wealthy West Coast relict of oil magnate Charles Vanderlip; both for the second time; in Oakland, Calif...
...when the U.S. stood on the threshold of world trade and world power, Manhattan's National City Bank opened its first foreign branch in Buenos Aires. It was forced to staff the new bank with Englishmen, because-to the disgust of City Bank president, the late Frank Arthur Vanderlip-few U.S. citizens with South American know-how were available. Sensing the U.S.'s new world role, Banker Vanderlip began giving tough 12-to-18-month courses in foreign economics, languages, business customs to college graduates, for jobs in the City Bank's foreign service...
...members of this Foreign Legion, students got only $50 monthly, lived together fraternity-house style to save money, occasionally frolicked in Vanderlip's swank swimming pool (see cut). When training ended, some stayed in the City Bank's foreign division in Manhattan, most went to overseas offices...
Another group of American ex-servicemen organized the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps, collected funds in France and the U. S., enrolled such eminent supporters as Ambassador William Bullitt, General John J. Pershing, Author Louis Bromfield, Banker Frank A. Vanderlip Jr., Mrs. Seton Porter. All told A. V. A. C. had 75 men, 66 Chevrolets at the front last week, including one donated by the New York Stock Exchange, another by the Broadway cast of Life With Father. Forty-four more A. V. A. C. ambulances are in France, will soon go into action. Third such unit was the Anglo-American...