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Indirectly another even richer woman sculptor was important in last week's art news. Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, resting from her own labors since her exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries eight months ago, opened the Third Biennial Exhibition of U. S. artists at the Whitney Museum of American...
...sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name and presence to another saloon, soon to be opened in the Miami Vanderbilt Hotel...
Only yacht on the Bath Iron Works future books at present is Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new America's Cup defense candidate, the keel of which was poured last week. With the passing of the golden days of yacht building, Bath Iron Works struggled along with Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service contracts together with an occasional commercial job until President Newell learned how to get Navy work in 1932. Since then Bath Iron Works has delivered three destroyers including the Lamson, now the fastest ship in the U. S. Navy. Navy Department contracts account for more than...
Bill Spaulding Jr., son of the football coach at University of California at Los Angeles, is a halfback on his father's team. Andy Kerr Jr. plays on his father's squad at Colgate. Vanderbilt Coach Ray Morrison's Son Jack is a halfback at Southern Methodist. Knute Rockne Jr. is quarterback of the Miami Military Academy team, headed for Notre Dame next year. At Baltimore last week, Bill Ingram, son of Navy's onetime Coach Jonas Ingram and nephew of Navy's onetime Coach Bill Ingram, drop-kicked Navy's third-period field...
Yacht racing for the America's Cup is divided into three stages: 1) negotiation; 2) construction; 3) sailing. Last week in Manhattan, preliminaries to next summer's races started to proceed from Stage One to Stage Two when Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, who helped underwrite and skippered the successful Cup defender in 1934, announced that, instead of heading a syndicate to finance the 1937 defender, he would build one all by himself. The new boat will cost some $400,000. She will be the first individually owned defender in 50 years. Because her designer, W. Starling Burgess, works...