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Frank Houston's elevation to the presidency was a well-deserved promotion. Born on a Tennessee plantation 50 years ago, educated at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, son of a longtime (1904-20) Tennessee Congressman, he got his business start as secretary to the Tennessee Bankers Association. Later when he was with First National Bank of St. Louis, he struck up a friendship with Percy Johnston, who was then a Kentucky bank examiner. And after Mr. Johnston was astride "Old Bullion," he persuaded the St. Louis banker to move to Manhattan. There in 15 years the potent Southern team...
Grinnell Jones was named Professor of Chemistry from September 1, 1934. He took his S.B. at Vanderbilt in the Class of 1903, received a Harvard A.M. in 1905, and a Ph.D. in 1908. Mr. Jones has been a member of the Harvard Faculty since 1912. During the war years of 1917-1919 he was chief chemist for the United States Tariff Commission...
Married-Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 36, journalist and onetime publisher; and Mrs. Helen Varner Anderson 26, of Clarksburg, W. Va.; in Albuquerque N. Mex. where they met three years ago and whither they returned "because it seemed more romantic." Twice before has Journalist Vanderbilt been married: to Rachel Littleton of Chattanooga, Tenn. (divorced in 1927) and to Mrs. Mary Weir Logan of Chicago (divorced...
...Union, Adams House, and Vanderbilt Hall at the Medical School, have individual kitchens. A central kitchen in Smith Hall prepares the food for Leverett, Kirkland, Winthrop, Eliot, and Lowell. a system of tunnels quite distinct from the heating tunnels provides communication between Smith Hall and the other Houses through which heated food trucks convey soups, vegetables, roasts, etc. In each of the dining halls so served there is a serving kitchen, where the food from the general kitchen is kept hot and many articles such as chops, steaks, egg dishes and special orders are actually cooked. At the Business School...
...before he died no one knows. But certainly the Loews' way of life changed not at all after Mr. Baker left $5,000,000 to Mrs. William Goadby Loew. In Manhattan they have a house on 93rd Street next door to Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. They also have a Newport mansion and an estate at Old Westbury, where Mrs. Loew raises prize narcissi...