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The summary: ADAMS HOUSE PSI UPSILON Chiron, rf. rf., Williams Donahue, Reed, lf. lf., Hicks, Field Merry, De Blois, c. c., Soule Huntington, rg. rg., Wilson, Legoust Feibleman, Howe, lg. lg., Gilbert, Conklin
Alva Vanderbilt soon found that one's social stature was measured by the success of the balls one gave. Very well. She would give a ball. Furthermore, she would build the most impressive house in town to give the ball in. The house, an adaptation of the Chateau de...
His second wife, 56-year-old Anna Hyatt Huntington, is the daughter of Zoologist Alpheus Hyatt. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a sculptor fully equal in ability to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. A pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the...
For five years British and Scottish stonemasons chipped and hammered in the Asheville woods while Mr. Vanderbilt toured Europe, sending back carload after carload of French furniture, Gothic cabinets, Jacobean tables, Japanese ivories. On Christmas day, 1895, Vanderbilts assembled to walk through the magnificent gardens laid out by Frederick Law...
For four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed...