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Most men tucked their masks in their pockets as soon as they arrived. Explained Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: "It itches, and I can't see." Soon the women followed suit, long before the magical hour of midnight. While the bands alternated rock 'n' roll and pop tunes, the favorite sport became people watching, until the question arose, what next? With no climax in sight and no single star to shine, part of the answer was 450 bottles of nonvintage Taittinger champagne. Paris Review Editor George Plimpton began throwing slow-motion forward passes with a napkin to Receiver John...
Alexander Heard, Chancellor, Vanderbilt University...
S.E.C. coaches admit that their athletic scholarship policies are the most liberal in the country. "A good football player," says Vanderbilt Coach Jack Green, "is a precious commodity-and we know it." Not that S.E.C. schools pay more; they offer the usual free ride: room, board, tuition and textbooks, plus $10 per month "laundry money." They just spend more. Alabama, for instance, awards 120 football scholarships a year compared with a maximum of 35 for Notre Dame. Even Vanderbilt, a perennial conference doormat-partly because it is the only S.E.C. university that does not offer majors in either "recreation...
Across the U.S. last week, it seemed to be raining footballs. No. 4-ranked Alabama scored three touchdowns on passes in a 42-6 pasting of Vanderbilt; the passing bug was so contagious that even a fullback tossed for a TD. Between them, Purdue and No. 2-ranked Michigan State put the ball in the air 51 times, and M.S.U. wound up with the ball game 41-20. Missouri, which was expected to run all over lowly Iowa State, needed a leaping touchdown catch in the final minutes to salvage a 10-10 tie. And Harvard, which had stuck...
Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 67, so admired the artist's primitive entitled Snow Bird that he snapped it up for $200 at the exhibition in Manhattan's Wally F. Galleries. Artist Marylou Whitney returned the compliment, laying out $300 for Belted Kingfisher, one of Sonny's nature studies. Luckily, a swarm of other customers also turned up at the champagne party opening the show to pay a total of $8,825 for the 37 works that Mr. and Mrs. Whitney had painted to benefit the Edward R. Murrow Memorial Fund of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club...