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Married. Consuelo Morgan Thaw, 40, sister of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt (mother of Gloria), of Lady Furness, of Harry Hays Morgan Jr.; and Alfons Beaumont Landa, 44, law partner of Joseph E. Davies; she for the third time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills...
Missing this year from the 27-team entry list were Donor Vanderbilt (who had twice been on the winning team), Oswald Jacoby and the late Jimmy Maier (members of the famed Four Aces), several other hardy competitors. So the team to beat was a young foursome headed by a frail little honey blonde, 31-year-old Helen Martin Sobel...
Last week, as the Vanderbilt tournament progressed in tick-tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...
After three-quarters (42 boards) of the final match had been played, Mrs. Sobel's team led by 850 points. Then the underdog Bridge Whistlers made a swing of 950 points, snatched the Vanderbilt Cup by the slim margin of 250 points...
Died. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 65, wealthy art patron, sculptress; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, she was the widow of Manhattan Financier Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...