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...Axed out of an appropriation bill $17,000 sought by the National Park Service to begin work on converting the $2,000,000 Vanderbilt estate near Hyde Park, N. Y., into a national historic site. Recommended by the same committee was $50,000 to complete the Saratoga (N. Y.) National Historical Park...
...maiden sister Anne sailed last week to supervise the field work of her American Friends of France, Inc., a revival of her American Committee for Devastated France in and after World War I. On Miss Morgan's list of officers are such social lionesses as Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, Mrs. George A. Crocker, the Misses Elizabeth Perkins, Maude Wetmore and Daisy Fiske Rogers. They send blankets, clothes, ambulances, entirely for civilian relief. Le Paquet au Front-clothes, toilet articles, sweets, tobacco, games for French soldiers at the front-was organized by Mrs. Seton Porter...
...famed Oliver Wendell Holmeses (the author of Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the Supreme Court Justice), Owen Wister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (the Franklin Roosevelts go Fly Club). Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names...
...receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall Street scene-murdered by the lover of one of his gewgaw women-Morgan was becoming a man to lean on as well as a foe to fight. It was to him that William H. Vanderbilt went to sell 250,000 shares of New York Central without disturbing the market. Morgan sold it all in England at $130 (the market), forced from Vanderbilt a seat on the directorate to guard his clients' interests, took a profit of $3,000,000 besides. Through the financial marts...
Birthday. Heiress Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 16, onetime centre of a custody battle between Mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, widow of Reginald Vanderbilt, and Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney...