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...Kaplan are partners in painting. He does the work she gets for him. Last week his latest picture and her latest commission arrived in Manhattan in the form of a 2 ft. by 3 ft. easel painting of the Crucifixion (see cut). The work was a present from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to his beauteous wife Gwladys...
...Vanderbilt, one of the Yale Colleges, will furnish the opposition for the Angler oarsmen in the races which will be run off at Derby, Connecticut; and according to all reports, they are going to prove a tough nut to crack. As champions of the Elis, they cleaned up everything in their regatta held several days...
...every day last week. The large blue trucks with cream paneling called three times. Along Philadelphia's swank, suburban Main Line, in & around socialite Hewlett, L. I. and in Reading, Pa. they stopped at the homes of William Wallace Atterbury, William Wistar Comfort, Mrs. Isaac Clothier Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and hundreds of others in which were 4,000 dogs, 30 cats and one raccoon. On each truck in large green letters were the words CANINE CATERING CO. above a small green Scottie. At each stop a gauntleted, high-booted young man hopped out with a package...
...brown colt Cavalcade, swung to the rail to get out and ahead of the press. Mata Hari and Sgt. Byrne fell back, bunching the field and making it necessary for Garner to take Cavalcade all the way outside again. At the half-mile pole, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery pushed out in front and while his backers yelled themselves hoarse, stayed there until the furlong pole. After turning for home, Jockey Garner took to the whip. Down the stretch he thundered on Cavalcade, past Discovery one length, two lengths. Three lengths ahead, he eased up as he flashed under...
...Under the will as probated, the banker's son and namesake, now chairman of First National Bank, received the bulk of the estate and personal effects. Two daughters, Evelyn Baker St. George of London and Florence Baker Loew of New York, received $5,000,000 each. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The original "Commodore" Corneel Vander Bilt left control of New York Central and $90,000,000 of his $100,000,000 estate to his eldest son. Dour, morose Son William Henry was the butt of his father's jests and contempt until one day he skinned his father...