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Nashville, to its inhabitants, is "the Athens of the South." So the President made the rounds of its schools. He saw Vanderbilt University and Ward-Belmont. At Fisk the famed Negro choir sang "Down by the Riverside" for him. At the request of Secret Service men, the George Peabody College for Teachers clipped its shrubbery back lest it conceal an assassin...
...private chambers of a New York Supreme Court justice in Manhattan one day last month a thin, nervous little girl of 10 sat swinging her spindly legs from a fat leather swivel chair. She was Gloria Vanderbilt, scion of one of the great socialite families of the U.S. Gently questioning her in clipped accents was a judge whose big body filled his ample chair and whose funny little goatee waggled up and down as he talked. An oldtime Tammany politician from the East Side, Justice John Francis Carew had hitherto known Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors, Goulds only as so many shadowy...
...impressive aggregation of wealth than is represented by the men on Pullman's board: J. P. Morgan and his partner George Whitney; Richard K. Mellon and two Mellon lieutenants; George F. Baker and a vice president of his First National Bank; General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Harold S. Vanderbilt, Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery. President of Pullman is David Anderson Crawford, a husky, popular gentleman of 55 who works hard and plays money-golf in the low 80's. During the winter at Chicago's University Club he plays racquets with his friends, using a soft ball...
Most interesting to minds of a radical turn should be the course of the legal controversy as to whose tender wing shall harbor the person of little ten-year old Gloria Vanderbilt until she comes of age, that of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney or that of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. After some weeks of tedious briefs, replications, rejoinders, evidence from the kitchen, and random scurrility, the Supreme Court has closed its cars to further discourse concerning the whimsies of the elite. Justice Carew, a modern Solomon as it were, assured the public Wednesday that the child ". . . is not to have...
...Winthrop House Football Team, winner of the league title for the third successive year, will play the Vanderbilt College eleven, Yale Champions, today at 2.30 o'clock on the second varsity field...