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...persons," for Claire Delmar, Swiss actress, in Los Angeles' swank Embassy Club, when belligerent Peter Arno, sexy cartoonist of the New Yorker, entered the club with Film Actress Sally O'Neil. Cartoonist Arno, who two years ago was chased across the landscape of Reno, Nev. by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. with an unloaded pistol, was introduced to Miss Delmar, became angry when Actor Steele "explained at that moment that there was just one thing that he lacked-besides being born a man he had failed to be born a gentleman." Cartoonist Arno swung wildly, missed. Sock! he was knocked...
Because some of the listed objects were easier to acquire than others. Sportsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt was appointed to set handicaps. As the scavengers trooped back they deposited their trophies with Gene Tunney, Novelist Louis Bromneld, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, Banker Charles Hayden, Prince Lodovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, ex- Governor of Rome, who awarded prizes of $500, $300 and two cases of champagne. First to return were Mrs. John C. Waterbury & Nicholas Holmsen, who brought back a white goat, complete with keeper, and a red lantern. From his pocket resourceful Mr. Holmsen extracted a live turtle...
...owners, A. J. Mathews and W. A. Macdonald, decided to send him to the U. S. He arrived in San Francisco last June, easily won two races on the Pacific Coast against undistinguished horses. Few weeks ago Winooka's American manager, Rufe Naylor, boldly challenged Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to a match with the latter's famed Equipoise, this year's ablest U. S. horse...
...only Weetamoe is in commission. She was bought by Banker Frederick Henry Prince of Boston and refitted according to the new rules. But she is not considered a possibility for anything more than trial runs against other contenders yet to be built. It was common talk that Harold Vanderbilt, honeymooning last week on the Mediterranean, had long ago put his Designer William Starling Burgess to work on plans for a new racer to succeed Enterprise...
...order to further intercourse between the various branches of the University concerned with medicine it has been decided to reconvene the Medical School Coloquium. Luncheon meetings will be held in the Bowditch room of Vanderbilt Hall on Thursdays throughout the remainder of the academic year...