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...when automobiling was a sport requiring goggles and a linen duster, William Kissam Vanderbilt II and some rich cronies who wanted to motor to their Long Island homes at 40 m.p.h. without scaring horses and infuriating the public, joined in buying a 50-mi. strip of land down Long Island from Flushing to Lake Ronkonkoma. On it they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles...
...best route to the swanky Hamptons. Lately, however, the development of great trunk parkways along Long Island, parallel to their curvy forebear, has cut its traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed at $1,100,000, to the public. President Robert Moses of the Long Island State Park Commission graciously accepted, said the old road would be modernized and linked into the rest of the parkway system...
...Next week's race is the second of the second series (TIME, Oct. 19), is sponsored by George Vanderbilt over the opposition of his second cousin, W. K. II, who sponsored the first series to promote good highways, scorns the present races as merely pecuniary...
...Chance" moved last year from his rambling house on the Vanderbilt campus to a new home in Nashville's grassy Belle Meade, where besides keeping a close eye on Successor Carmichael he can devote more time to raising his black irises, known by his name to most U. S. horticulturists. The "Chance" also likes fishing, shooting ducks at his camp in Magnetawan, Ont., discussing anything under the sun with his wife Mary, listening to prize fight broadcasts with his son-in-law, Professor Benjamin Meritt of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Kirkland crotchets include a dislike...
...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...