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...behind a fishpond, half covered with ivy. None bore the Whitney Museum's excellent lighting with enough distinction to turn a critic's head. The medal-winner: a reddish marble mother toting a limp child whose build resembled that of a miniature track champion. The sculptor: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, lady bountiful to the Whitney Museum and the National Society of Sculptors...
Francis P. Murphy, Governor of New Hampshire, Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts, Henry L. Shattuck '01, member of the Corporation, and William H. Vanderbilt, Governor of Rhode Island, are also serving as sponsors...
Biologists Edwin Eustace Reinke and Claude Simpson Chadwick of Vanderbilt University and the Highlands (N.C.) Biological Laboratory nabbed some North Carolina specimens of T. viridescens in the immature red eft stage and implanted bits of adult pituitary gland in their muscles. Within six days the newts went into the water and assumed the adult body color and tail shape. Thus it seemed that the pituitary provided not only the necessary physiological changes for aquatic life but also the "water drive" or impulse to seek water...
Seeking Divorce. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., thrice-married, gadabout, society author & lecturer; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: three years' separation. (Last month Mrs. Vanderbilt announced she would sue Vagabond Vanderbilt for divorce if he stopped in one place long enough to be served...
...superintendent will be in charge of 400 employees in his new capacity. A graduate of Vanderbilt University in 1915 and a construction engineer, he was first connected with the University when he helped build Wigglesworth Hall...