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...Louisiana State University, Mr. Embree concluded, it is not even among the best Southern institutions: Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Duke, Emory...
...pies were the last word in social depravity, a notable group of young Manhattan sporting gentlemen gathered one day at the Metropolitan Club. Outside stood a jet-black coach & four which was to carry them the 206 miles to Newport, there to play polo at Oakland, Mr. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's big farm...
Society's pageant did not properly start until the intermission when opera glasses were brought out for the annual inspection of the Diamond Horseshoe. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was there, in hair ribbon and diamond stomacher. Goelets, Blisses and Wilsons had their oldtime boxes. In the Morgan box sat Mrs. Herbert Satterlee, Mr. Morgan's sister. With Mrs. Watts Sherman was her granddaughter, Eileen Gillespie, who almost became Mrs. John Jacob Astor III. Missing was old Mrs. Vanderbilt, Society's long-time peeress, and Otto Hermann Kahn, for years the Metropolitan's best friend. Both had died...
...brass gleaming, its larder bursting and its water tanks brimming, the private Pullman car Roald Amundsen glided softly out of Manhattan one afternoon last month behind the New York Central's westbound Commodore Vanderbilt. Forward in the servants' room were the cook, the waiter and a porter who once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank...
...Eliot House which is open in the evening and which has been doing a large share of the business in beer. At the Business School beer will be served at the Students' Club, but not in the dining halls. At the Medical School the existing license of the Vanderbilt Hall Dining Room will be continued...