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...black-robed rabbi glanced down at the casket covered with spring flowers. Facing him in the pews were nearly 2,000 men & women, great and small. Owen D. Young was there and so were Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, Myron C. Taylor. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Lucrezia Bori, many & many another. As the organ's whisper floated away, the rabbi said...
...Honolulu, Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney announced that his company would make the first commercial flight to China by summer...
Said Chairman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt of the Whist Club's Committee on Rules: "These new figures are not as nearly in accord with the laws of chance as were the old, but the change was made to protect the pocketbook of the loser...
Candidate for the most banal picture was a meat-calendarish illustration of Putnam Called From the Plow by John Ward Dunsmore, A. N. A. Slickest portrait was a huge, brittle canvas by Paul Trebilcock of the much publicized Morgan sisters, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt and Thelma, Viscountess Furness. Among the best pictures passed over by the prize committee were Taxes, a desolate study of an abandoned farm by the former PWAP head Edward Bruce, and Jes Schlaikjer's The Cooling Well, a woman and child bending over a well head on a South Dakota farm on a hot summer evening...
John L. Wilson, of Sturgis, Kentucky, and class of 1935 at Vanderbilt, plans to study at the Medical School as the recipient of the Rumrill Scholarship. This award is given to graduates of qualified Southern universities who desire further training at Harvard...