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...Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, a Yale schoolmate, and at the time Pan Am's board chairman, teamed up with some directors against Trippe. They felt that Trippe was spending too much on new planes and routes, instead of on dividends. They shunted Trippe aside and Whitney took over. But Whitney was unable to take over the thousand & one details of Pan Am's far-flung operations which Trippe kept in his head...
...guests like to entertain each other. At Perle Mesta's parties, Harry Truman has played the piano, General Ike Eisenhower has sung Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (in a shaky baritone), Pat Hurley, without too much encouragement, has given his Comanche war whoop, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has whistled in a duet...
...middle 1880s, Commodore Vanderbilt was staying at a hotel in Paris, having his portrait painted by Meissonier. In the course of one of the sittings, he asked the painter which of his paintings was his favorite. Meissonier answered: "Le Renseignement. But it is in the hands of the enemies of France; it is in Berlin...
...Vanderbilt had the picture purchased and sent to his hotel. When Meissonier came for the next sitting, Vanderbilt . . . said: "I am going to give you that picture."' You may imagine Meissonier's delight, and he did not charge Vanderbilt for the portrait...
...Reader Pugh has the right painter, but the wrong Vanderbilt. It was the Commodore's son, William Henry, who sat for and became a patron of Meissonier...