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...Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Gallery of Western Art in Cody, Wyo. (pop. 5,872), this oversight was remedied. Now tourists, folklore specialists and art lovers alike can see in a handsome 240-ft.-long gallery the Old West in all its glory, ranging from an Indian brave's buckskin jacket with porcupine-quill embroidery and the original "Deadwood Stage" built in Concord, N.H. in 1840 to works by such master painters of the West as George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Jacob Miller, plus the entire studio collection of Frederic Remington, the greatest of Western painters, donated...
...deciding on a career in the arts. Herter was following in family footsteps. His German-born grandfather, the first Christian Herter, was an architect and interior decorator who designed and lavishly adorned the Fifth Avenue mansions of such gilded-age moguls as J.P. Morgan and William H. Vanderbilt. In his early 40s, having piled up a million of his own, Grandfather Herter said farewell to his family and went off to live in Paris, where a few years later he died of tuberculosis, leaving behind a sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became...
...Trailing midway through the final round at Seattle, the bridge team headed by B. Jay Becker rallied strongly to overtake Charles Goren's team and win the Vanderbilt Cup, one of the most prized trophies in U.S. contract bridge, earned the right to represent the U.S. in the 1960 World Bridge Olympiad in Rome...
Born in Middlesboro, Kentucky--"just north of the Cumberland Gap and Daniel Boone country"--Price attended Vanderbilt University, majoring in history and political science and graduating in 1931. After a year off on the Nashville Tennessean, he continued his studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford...
...felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler, he could stand up to such Erie accomplices as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould. Indeed, in his watered-stocking feet, he stood only inches below the stature of Commodore Vanderbilt himself...