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Last year Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery was known to most racegoers as the horse that usually came in just after Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade. Actually, this was less a slur upon Discovery than upon the proverbial inattention of racegoers. Although it was true that Discovery was defeated by Cavalcade every time they met, he won consistently on other occasions, piled up $49,555 in prizes which made him the fifth biggest winner of 1934. This year, while Cavalcade has been in his stall, harassed by lameness, coughs and everything except a nervous breakdown, Discovery...
...less impressive than the change in the fortunes of Discovery this year has been that of the 22-year-old owner who bought him for $25,000 in 1932, just after the Vanderbilt silks (cerise, white diamonds and white cap; had been registered with The Jockey Club. Properly speaking, the Vanderbilt Stables came into existence in 1934. The autumn before. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt celebrated his coming of age with a party at Cedar Knoll. Sands Point, L. I. From the estate of his father, who went down with the Lusitania, he got the first installment (about...
Upheld by unanimous decision of the Appellate Court was New York's Supreme Court order making Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, 11, a ward of the court, giving her to her mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, for weekends, Christmas and July, to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, for the rest of the year (TIME. Dec. 3 et ante). Though the opinion went out of its way to exonerate Mrs. Vanderbilt of her onetime maid's charge that she behaved indiscreetly with the Marchioness of Milford Haven, it pointedly concluded: "If the relator [Mrs. Vanderbilt] shall avail herself fully of her rights...
Died. Mrs. Virginia Fair ("Birdie") Vanderbilt, 55. first wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II; of pneumonia ; in Manhattan. Daughter of James Graham Fair, Irish immigrant boy who went West with the '49ers, bought into the Comstock Lode and became a U. S.. Senator. "Birdie" Fair followed the footsteps of her elder Sister "Tessie" (Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs) by making a brilliant marriage to a top-flight socialite. A devout Roman Catholic, she got a Paris divorce in 1927, assumed the name Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt...
...Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected...