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Another Whitney formally took to horse racing when plump Joan Whitney Payson registered her colors (pink-&-black) with the American Jockey Club. Other Whitney stable owners: her mother, Mrs. Payne Whitney (pink-&-black); her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney (fuchsia-&-purple); her cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney (blue-&-brown) with whom Mrs. Payson's large, handsome husband Charles rowed for Yale...
...Alva Vanderbilt soon found that one's social stature was measured by the success of the balls one gave. Very well. She would give a ball. Furthermore, she would build the most impressive house in town to give the ball in. The house, an adaptation of the Chateau de Blois, cost $3,000,000. And no one in Manhattan since has given a party as impressive as the one which warmed her house on the night of March 27, 1883. Alva Vanderbilt received her guests in an elaborate renaissance costume, fetchingly set off by the photographer with white doves...
...impressive house in the colony, Marble Hall. It cost $8,000,000. She warmed Marble Hall with the most sensational engagement announcement of the decade, that of her daughter Consuelo to the Duke of Marlborough. (When Consuelo wanted an annulment in 1927, her mother frankly admitted coercion.) Next Alva Vanderbilt erected another towering social milestone by divorcing her husband. A year later she became the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. In 1908 he died, and Mrs. Belmont abruptly redirected her talents. "No profession," said she, when someone asked her why she had retired from the social battleground...
Last week plans were made to bury Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery. She will be interred beside her second husband* in the celebrated Belmont chapel, modeled after that of the Chateau at Amboise. She built that...
...were the Interstate Commerce Commission and the "Big Four" railway systems-New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pennsylvania. They had balked his every effort to form another great Eastern system which would be L. F. Loree's monument. As a railroad man in the gaudy tradition of Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill, Leonor Loree was known & feared, but Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill had their big systems and bearded old Mr. Loree had only the smallish Delaware & Hudson and Kansas City Southern. Between them was a great gap. But L. F. Loree was tenacious...