Word: vanderbilt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paintings. From its fat endowment it has bought throughout Depression far more pictures than it needed or could show as the kindest, most practical form of unemployment relief. It gives lectures. It publishes books. It encourages talent. And it is no more democratic than the Italian Government. Founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her good friend Juliana Force, with a board of directors of their own choosing, run the gallery exactly as they see fit. Every other year they give an Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. The third such exhibition opened last week, with one painting apiece from 153 artists...
...plaster Venus; Walter P. Chrysler Jr. bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio going upstairs; Mrs. William T. Wetmore going downstairs...
...Anderson went among his rich socialite friends at Palm Beach and Bar Harbor and discovered the existence of a Research Investigation Committee. Members include John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Mrs. Elisha Dyer Hubbard, and Consuelo Vanderbilt's father-in-law, Sydney J. Smith. They helped to fill editorial wastebaskets with querulous complaints about Dr. Koch's "persecutions...
...Manhattan last week Supreme Court Justice John Francis Carew put the finishing touches to his decision giving possession of 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 26, et ante). "Calculated to destroy her health and neglectful of her moral, spiritual and mental education," Justice Carew ruled, had been Gloria's life with her glittering young widowed mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt. "Fit, suitable and appropriate" to his mind had been the child's life for the past two years at Mrs. Whitney's Old Westbury, L. I. estate...
Apparently to forestall an appeal, Justice Carew neither sustained nor dismissed the writ of habeas corpus by which Mrs. Vanderbilt sought to get her daughter back from Mrs. Whitney. Instead he made Gloria a ward of the Supreme Court of New York, appointed Mrs. Whitney her custodian as the Court's representative. He ordered Mrs. Whitney to continue the child's schooling, maintain her "in a manner suitable to her fortune" ($2,800,000), provide a Roman Catholic governess who would instruct her in her mother's faith.* Gloria should never be taken out of New York...