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...Pembroke; Ben, 15, is at the Scarborough School; and Frederico, 7, goes to a local elementary school. The family moved to Scarborough, a heavily wooded community just south of Ossining, in 1950, renting what Cheever describes as a "remodeled tool shed" on the huge estate of Frank A. Vanderlip Sr., onetime president of the National City Bank. After M-G-M bought The Housebreaker of Shady Hill for around $40,000 in 1956 (it was never made into a movie), the Cheevers took off for a year in Italy, returned to buy a house in Ossining, a little...
...enough to become the subject of a book, The Young Russian Corporal. At the request of the U.S. Shipping Board, Paul toured the nation's shipyards, helping build morale among the workers. He also made some powerful friends, among them the National City Bank's Frank A. Vanderlip, who gave him a job in China after the war ended. Later, Paul started a rare-metals import business, bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, finally got into the oil business in a big way. Since his marriage, he has replaced his wife as board chairman...
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...