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...Seventeenth Century pirates knew them well. Charles Darwin visited them in his famed voyage of the Beagle. Ever since they have been a special delight for scientists, nature fakirs and wanderlustful millionaires. Within recent years such celebrities as William Beebe, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, John Barrymore, Gifford Pinchot, William K. Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor have visited the islands...
...decision had fallen to him because two high-born women were at war over the girl's custody. One was sleek, brittle Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, 29. the child's mother. The other was the child's aunt, lean-faced, determined Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, born Gertrude Vanderbilt 57 years ago. For two years Mrs. Whitney had kept her late brother's only daughter on her 3,000-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. while his widow occupied herself in smart European resorts. Last September, settled in a house in Manhattan, Mrs. Vanderbilt had little...
When the case was brought before him eight weeks ago Justice Carew ruled at once that it was up to Mrs. Whitney to prove that Mrs. Vanderbilt could not be trusted to rear and educate her daughter properly. Mrs. Whitney promptly set out to besmirch her sister-in-law's reputation, to show that in the years when she was gadding about Paris, Cannes, Biarritz and Deauville with her hard-drinking, hard-living friends she had paid no heed at all to Gloria's upbringing. Mrs. Harry Hays Morgan, Mrs. Vanderbilt's mother, turned...
When Mrs. Whitney took the stand, she was seen to be fingering several small prayer books. Because Mrs. Whitney is an Episcopalian and Mrs. Vanderbilt a Roman Catholic, the question of Gloria's religious training became a major point at issue. But so criss-crossed were the ties of family affection that Catholic Mrs. Morgan was reported to be praying before an improvised altar in her dressing room that her granddaughter might remain with Episcopalian Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Whitney attempted to sidetrack the religious issue by declaring that if Gloria remained in her custody, she would be reared...
First intimation of Justice Carew's decision bewildered everyone concerned. It consisted of a single sentence: "Mr. Justice Carew decided that the child, Gloria Vanderbilt, is not to have for the future the life that it had from the death of its father up till June...