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...Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition: The Maharaja of Kapurthala and his son, Major Prince Amarjit Singh; G-Man J. Edgar Hoover chumming with Attorney General Frank Murphy (see p. 16); Mr. & Mrs. Harold S. Vanderbilt...
...medical care than their city cousins is the backwardness of the average country doctor, who does little to keep up with the rapid progress of medicine. Alert young physicians no longer settle in the country, and, according to Associate Professor of Medicine John Barlow Youmans of Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, 10% to 20% of country doctors "will not take postgraduate training on their own initiative, even when opportunities are available...
Barkeley has won the golf crown for the Blue, while Saybrook, Davenport, and Vanderbilt are in a playoff for the baseball crown. Saybrook has annexed the tennis crown, and the Berkeley night has won the crew title...
...long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ex-Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. For them and for New York World's Fair visitors until October 1, the new Museum was decked out with a big, cream-of-the-crop exhibition of "Art in Our Time" paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, photography, industrial...
Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart from dummy, pondered whether to finesse. Impatient with Mr. Barnes's slow play, Opponent Robert McPherran said: "It makes no difference." Mr. Barnes thereupon deduced that Mr. McPherran had two hearts instead of three, eventually went down 500 points instead of 300. Mr. Barnes protested that he had been...