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...Only a Vanderbilt. Lapidus graduated from the Columbia School of Architecture in 1927, began his career as the shoe-store Frank Lloyd Wright by pioneering in store-front design that turned drab show windows into eye-catching display cases. But his lavish future was foreshadowed when a gold, walnut and marble bathroom that he designed for Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt caused her husband to complain: "I'm only a Vanderbilt, not a Rockefeller!" By 1943 the fun had gone out of store design, and Lapidus branched into architecture on his own. For several years he worked mainly...
...tries to show that all women possess a quality that he calls "The Sphinx Within." With seven international glamour girls as his subjects, Avedon got them to look slinkily feline under a variety of hairdos purporting to be Egyptian. He achieves his most eye-catching effect with Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, thereby moving another glamorous tigress, New York Mirror Society Chatterist "Suzy" to comment: "When they make her a plain jane on those TV potboilers, they spoil a good thing." Said Harper's Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls: "They belong to women who are sloe-eyed...
...leader of the sit-ins, the Rev. James Morris Lawson Jr., 31, was expelled from Vanderbilt University's divinity school by the trustees because of his "strong commitment to a planned campaign of civil disobedience." At week's end Lawson and 79 others, mostly Negroes, were arrested on state charges of conspiracy to disrupt trade and commerce. (Maximum penalty: eleven months and 29 days and/or $1,000 fine.) They were quickly bailed out; 16 Vanderbilt divinity faculty members posted bond for Lawson. Meanwhile, worried Mayor Ben West ("Please, let's avoid a blood bath in this community...
...unusual new volunteer offered her services to Graham's crusade last week. The volunteer: comely Divorcee Eleanor Searle Whitney, ex-wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, onetime choir soloist in Dover, Ohio, who became one of Billy's most faithful followers during his New York City Crusade in 1957, when she rounded up a Bible class of her Long Island friends for Evangelist Graham to address in private sessions. After a quick tiger-shoot in Nepal and a swing through Iran, Eleanor Whitney let it be known last week that she intends to join Graham, possibly to help...
...York Yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt gave $2,500,000 to the Program for Harvard College, just in time to enable the monumental three-year campaign to top its goal with total pledges of $82,697,470, plus a $5,000,000 dividend of interest and appreciation already earned by Program money in the bank. Explained onetime Harvardman ('07) Vanderbilt: "This drive has acquired an almost romantic appeal for the many who love Harvard...