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...quietly did he die of a liver ailment at the age of 24 in Manhattan on Oct. 4 that not a line made the news columns. But when the will of Robert Vanderpoel Clark Jr. was probated last week, it showed an estate of $26,554,200, held principally in trusts and be queathed equally to his mother and wife of 2½ years. Clark was a great-grand son of Singer Manufacturing Founder Alfred Corning Clark, and he inherited the bulk of his fortune when his great-uncle died last February...
Married. Robert Vanderpoel Clark, 21, Manhattan's No. 1 male debutant of 1938, Singer Sewing Machine Co. heir; and Suzanne de La Salle Chambers Hiteman, 36, French-born divorcee; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan. At Glamor Boy Clark's coming-of-age party last November, celebrated in Manhattan's 21 Club, Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier and scores of other debutantes drank his health...
...defeated VerBurg: referee's decision. 125 pounds--Dailey (H) defeated Stone: fall, over time period. 135 pounds--Al Richter (H) defeated Hobson: referee's decision. 145 pounds--Lindinfelser (H) defeated Cohen: fall, 7m., 14s. 155 pounds--Goslin (H) defeated Cetter: referee's decision. 165 pounds--Doughaday (H) defeated Vanderpoel: referee's decision. 175 pounds--Kidder (H) defeated Lucas: referee's decision. Heavy-weight--Boston (H) defeated Martin: fall...
...contemporary of the News' Munger at the University of Chicago was Robert P. (for Peter) Vanderpoel, lanky, critical financial editor of the Evening American. He was the first Chicago editor to treat the Board of Trade not as a privileged private club but as a public institution susceptible of improvement. With Royal Munger he was viewing the Insull empire with quiet alarm two years before it fell. In his column called "VANDERPOEL" he is usually to be found in any economic corner except the popular one. One of his punching bags currently is the general theory that real Recovery...
...problem which the machine actually worked on last week was the Vanderpoel equation for activity of vacuum tube oscillators. The originator of the equation found it possible to work out one solution every two days. It takes a long, while to set the machine for this problem, but, once set, it whips out solutions at the rate of four per hour. Mr. Travis thinks the machine may solve astronomy's knotty "three-body problem."* Professor Charles DeVan Fawcett, the machine's enthusiastic impresario and financial nurse since its inception, believes it will calculate the factors of maximum efficiency...