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Bishop Adrian was undoubtedly chosen to build up Catholic schools and colleges in Tennessee, home of Protestant Vanderbilt and Sewanee (University of the South). Another North American College graduate, Dr. Adrian was long a faculty member and in 1932-35 vice president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport. A heavy-footed, horny-handed farmer's son, he coached football and baseball, taught Latin and manual training. Said he last fortnight: "I'm bringing two chairs I made to grace the Episcopal residence at Nashville...
Proving too strong for the visiting tontingent, the Vanderbilt College hockey team of Yale defeated the Winthrop House sextet in New Haven yesterday afternoon by the score of 4 goals...
...Earl Brown, a porter in Grand Central, has written in Letters, biweekly magazine, how he once tried to extort "hush money" from Mr. Sachs on "Sugar Hill," the Vanderbilt Avenue taxicab entrance...
...claiming class. Partly because Top Row's earlier achievements had been so limited, partly because his owner was emphatically outside that circle of socialite owners whose names are supposed to make racing news glamorous, sportswriters paid remarkably little attention to him. Nonetheless, while they were acclaiming Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Discovery the horse of the year, Top Row went quietly about the business of winning races. By September he had won six. He had beaten Discovery once, with a 29-lb. advantage in the weights which considerably diminished the prestige of the feat. When in October he beat...
...Boddy (pronounced Boady). Twelve years ago slight, dapper, pencil-mustached. Manchester Boddy, a gassed and wounded A. E. F. lieutenant, was organizing the Mexican Year Book Publishing Co. He saw his chance to step up in the world when the spectacular publishing ventures of Cornelius (Farewell to Fifth Avenue) Vanderbilt Jr. collapsed; talked the receivers into letting him publish Vanderbilt's Los Angeles tabloid. Publisher Boddy made good his sales talk by building the Illustrated Daily News into one of the Coast's outstanding newspapers, noted for its bold and colorful handling of the news, the advanced economic...