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...clock a dinner will be given at the Vanderbilt Hall Gymnasium, at which President Lowell will preside, Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physiology of the School of Medicine of Cornell University, will speak on "The Life of a Professor." The presentation to the medical school of the portrait of Dr. Cannon will then take place. Members of the committee in charge are: Dr. Henry A. Christian, chairnfan, Dr. Harvey Cushing. Dr. Alexander Forbes, Dr. Alfred C. Redfield and Dr. Cecil K. Drinker...
Ready to open in November is the Whitney Museum of American Art. Backed by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, it is an outgrowth of the old Whitney Studio Club. The Whitney Museum's director is a Mrs. Juliana Force. For the past two years she has been gathering a large collection of the unsigned portraits, landscapes and inn signs of early U. S. journeyman painters. This was to be one of the big features of the Whitney Museum's opening. Mr. Cahill is accused of admiring the Whitney Museum collection sufficiently to imitate the idea, spoil the Whitney Museum's surprise...
...last day of the Belmont, N. Y., autumn racing season: Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Green Cheese, the $28,250 Grand National Steeplechase; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's unbeaten two-year-old filly Top Flight, the $94,780 Futurity Stakes; Mrs. Payne Whitney's champion three-year-old Twenty Grand, the $10,400 Jockey Club Gold Cup, at odds...
...Apia, two stewards from the yacht Alva, on which William Kissam Vanderbilt & friends are touring the South seas, complained to a Samoan court of ill treatment. The court cleared Yachtsman Vanderbilt, found the stewards "prohibited immigrants," fined them £100 each. They could not pay, were jailed for six months...
Married, Mrs. Muriel Yanderbilt Church, daughter of William Kissam Yanderbilt and his first wife. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt; divorced wife of Frederic Cameron Church Jr.; and Henry Delafield Phelps of Providence. R. I.; at Mrs. Vanderbilt's Manhasset, L. I., estate; in a civil ceremony (Mrs. Church's first marriage had not been annulled by the Pope). Mrs. Church requested that instead of wedding presents the money be given to help the Unemployed. Just before the ceremony her favorite hunter got excited, bowled over tables, scattered guests every which...