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Married. Sigourney Thayer, divorced husband of Mrs. Emily O'Neil Davies Vanderbilt Thayer (the first Mrs. William Henry Vanderbilt), son of Rev. Dr. William Greenough Thayer who is headmaster of St. Marks School (Southboro, Mass.); and Mary Van Rensselaer ("Molly") Cogswell, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
...losis take a heavy toll. The hurricane of 1928 (called "San Filipe" by the natives) struck the island a $100,000,000 blow from which it is still staggering. The 1929 sugar price slump hit the island's chief source of income. Tourist trade, despite the fine big Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan, is negligible because Porto Rico, as part of the U. S., is nominally Dry. Even the natives' greatest sport?cock fighting?is illegal, although this month the insular Senate passed a bill to permit...
Sued. Elsie French and Anne Colby* ("X-Ray Twins") Vanderbilt, month-old daughters of William Henry Vanderbilt and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; along with 24 of their kin, all heirs of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died : by the U. S. Government; for $800,000 in profits, back taxes and interest from the sale in 1927 of the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Valued at $3,000,000, it was sold for $7,100,000 which reverts to the heirs at the death of 86-year-old Mrs. Alice Gwynne ("The Dowager Mrs.") Vanderbilt. The Government regards the sale...
...Named for their paternal grandmother and their mother, the twins were first reported named Elsie French and Edith Hyde (TIME, March 9) for their grandmothers. The mother of William Henry Vanderbilt was an Ellen French, known as Elsie...
...Popper '32, president of the Liberal Club, announced the speakers for the next two meetings. Alexander Meiklejohn, University of Wisconsin, will talk April 9, and Frederick Vanderbilt Field is to speak the latter part of April...