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...N.Y.U. 14 Georgia 0 North Carolina 13 Penn 7 Northwestern 16 Illinois 6 U.S.C. 20 California 0 Tennessee 46 Mercer 0 Chicago 61 Opendate 0 Boston College 20 St. Anselm 0 Amherst 20 Wesleyan 0 Holy Cross 20 Colgate 7 Texas A. & M. 20 Baylor 0 L.S.U. 21 Vanderbilt...
...Following the U. S. State Department's restrictions on transatlantic travel (see below), Pan American changed its European terminals to Foynes, Eire instead of Southampton, Lisbon, Portugal instead of Marseille. Same time, pleading "extraordinary demands upon the United States . . . services," Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney sought CAA permission to double Pan American's present twice-weekly transatlantic schedule, enabling it to carry nearly 200 passengers, 8,000 Ib. of mail...
...young auctioneer named Thomas E. Kirby and partners founded the American Art Association in 1883, were soon holding sales that ran into the millions. Auctioneer Kirby sold such famous Victorian paintings as Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, which Commodore Vanderbilt bought and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1922, with borrowed money, Kirby put up the Madison Avenue building. Next year he sold the American Art Association to rich, eccentric Cortlandt Field Bishop for $500,000 and retired, having auctioned $60,000,000 worth of art in 40 years. Founder Kirby died a year later...
When Skipper Vanderbilt landed in England last June for his first racing in British waters, 50,000 British yachtsmen chuckled. The tricky tidal currents, blustering winds and close-to-shore courses, were quite different from U. S. racing. But, to their dismay, Skipper Vanderbilt caught on quickly, won twelve of the 17 races in which he started this summer. Last week's regatta, climax of the season, was Britain's last chance to recover its lost prestige...
With business-like efficiency, Vanderbilt and his well-drilled crew went after the Tomahawk with which his arch-rival had hoped to scalp him. In the first race, sailed in a gale that sank one of the competing boats and drowned a seaman, Vim finished 37 minutes ahead of Tomahawk, but was disqualified for crowding Sopwith's sloop at the start. In the second race, Vim beat Tomahawk by 28 seconds, in the third by seven minutes, in the fourth by 51 seconds, in the fifth by eight minutes. When the flags came down at sunset on the last...