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...board Vincent Astor's big Nourmahal, the America's Cup Committee ate and drank a good dinner, then sat down to decide the business once and for all. They picked Enterprise, skippered by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, to defend the cup against Shamrock V. It was the decision everyone had expected, but they had not expected it so soon. After beating Weetamoe in light airs, Enterprise established herself by beating her again next day in the second of the final official trials, in a high sea and a racing wind. Yankee, racing Whirlwind, made better time than Enterprise that...
...Jersey. Three years later he was ousted from control. He immediately formed Chevrolet Company and by May 1916 was able to tell G. M. directors that once again he was in control. Five years later he was forced to tender his resignation. The greatest bull since Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was broke and jobless...
...band played loud at a Vanderbilt lawn party in Portsmouth, R. I., and the horses of the approaching Vanderbilt carriage shied, bowled over two ladies near the gate. Out of the coach leaped Newport's Mayor Mortimer A. Sullivan and Vice President Charles Curtis, stood the ladies on their feet again...
...York Sun under Charles Dana, was one of the young Newport sports of 1886 who organized and played on the first U. S. international team. She started her son Thomas playing as soon as he was old enough to swing a mallet. She helped young Douglas Burden and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to learn the game...
...Important members of the N. A. M.: General Electric Co., International Harvester Co., Packard Motor Car Co. Mr. Edgerton is also president of the Lebanon (Tenn.) Woolen Mills, trustee of Vanderbilt University, trustee of Martin College (Pulaski, Tenn.), a Democrat, a Kiwanian, a Rotarian, a Southern Methodist...