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FAREWELL TO FIFTH AVENUE-Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.-Simon & Schuster...
...tabloid mind, piously supposed to be plebeian, is no respecter of family. Last week, if further proof were needed, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. hastened to clinch the matter. Scion of a name that in three generations has become legendary to U. S. gumchewers as the label of aristocratic wealth, Author Vanderbilt did his feebly sensational best to throw his tribe into scareheads. It was his tenth book; the only real news about it was that smart Publishers Simon & Schuster were bringing...
...Author Vanderbilt (now 36) bade a tentative farewell to Fifth Avenue some years ago, when, against the advice and consent of his family, he first tried to become a newshawk and turned out to be a decoy. Like an ocean traveler on a slowly departing liner, he continues to wave good-by long after the shore crowd's handkerchiefs are dry. Farewell to Fifth Avemie rehashes, in pseudo-Northcliffe journalese, the high spots of Author Vanderbilt's career as poor little rich boy. Vanderbilt readers may find it annoying; to non-Vanderbilts it will seem either shocking...
...Reporter Vanderbilt does not increase his reputation for accuracy when he remarks (hat Rolls-Royce was the only make of car his family ever used, and then prints a photograph of his father driving him in a pre-War Packard. He becomes incredible with such an anecdote as the one in which he has the late Sir Douglas Haig tap him on the shoulder and inquire: "I say, American, how long do you think this bally war will last?" He admits he lost his entire share of the family estate ($1,903,000) in his ill-advised venture into tabloid...
Kirsten Flagstad, 38, a new import from Norway, whose first Isolde won reams of praise last week. Critic Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune called her performance "one of the rarest of our time." Even Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt stood in her box and cheered...