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...Cowes is not only for aristocrats. By ferry and excursion steamer sporting England flocked to the Isle of Wight last week. What they came to see this year was the yachting duel between Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, Britain's No. 1 yachtsman, and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the American upstart who trounced him in U. S. waters in two challenges for the America's Cup (1934 and 1937). This year both were racing twelve-metre boats (half the size of Cup boats). Along the Esplanade as well as within the Royal Yacht Squadron gates, the No. 1 controversy...
Well-bred two-year-olds are seldom raced until midsummer, except for occasional overnight races to test their ability. By last week the following had shown promise of keen competition in Saratoga's big two-year-old stakes: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Flight Command, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Now What, Arnold Hanger's Roman Flag, Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Bimelech, and Millsdale Stable's Andy...
...thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm of (Carl J.) Bard & (J. Victor) Vanderbilt came forward with a design that Father Troy recognized as his nightmare...
...Herbert Lehman's lap, to the confusion of Hostess Eleanor Roosevelt. For the cameras and perhaps for solace, Democrats Stark (Missouri), Cochran (Nebraska) and Lehman ganged up with the President. At the President's feet, beaming innocently, sat a G. O. P. Governor's daughter, Anne Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, and a Democrat's daughter, Julia Holt of West Virginia...
...symposium will meet each morning for lectures at Vanderbilt Hall. Afternoons will be given over to clinics and demonstrations at the Medical School laboratories and associated hospitals. Registration for the symposium will take place this weekend at the School of Public Health offices...