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Sued for Divorce. John Francis Amherst Cecil, onetime secretary of the British Embassy at Washington; by Mrs. Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, only daughter of the late George Washington Vanderbilt; in Paris. By her father's will which left her approximately $50,000,000. Mrs. Cecil was required to live at least six months of the year at "Biltmore House," the huge French Renaissance chateau he built near Asheville, N. C. Her marriage, ten years ago this month, was an international occasion. Following it, Mr. Cecil gave up his diplomatic career, became manager of his wife's estate...
...buggies, phaetons, victorias, coaches. Many were painted green-the Brewster green used by modern paint companies. Brewster carriage makers always got good pay, provided they drank no liquor. Top price for a Brewster carriage was $1,450 and Brewster carriages were in the stables of every Vanderbilt, Astor. Auchincloss and Gould. After James Brewster died in 1866 his son Henry carried on the business, branched into automobile bodies in 1907, aviation equipment during the War. The company's century-old reputation for workmanship was undimmed when Rolls-Royce, casting about for a body as good as its chassis, bought...
From a house on Manhattan's East 49th Street last week went news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...
...fault, what shall I do?" Madame Nijinskaya ends her book with the prayer she said when she first saw Nijinsky dance. There follows a list of people who have stood by him through his illness. There are only five names: the late Paul Dupuy, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Sr., Harpist Carlos Salzedo, Robert Alfred Shaw and Tamara Karsavina...
...basketball team swamped the Arts and Sciences quintet yesterday by the score of 53 to 15 in Hemenway Gymnasium. At the same time in Vanderbilt Hall the Business School defeated the Dental School...