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Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Long Island socialite, poloist, airman; at Reno...
Mims. Dr. Edward Mims of Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.) defended the South's reluctance to embrace "modernism." Said he: "Many people have passed from sentimentalism to sophistication, from rose pink literature to dirty drab, from Pollyanna optimism to the most depressing pessimism, from uplift to iconoclasm, from mediocrity to abnormal eccentricity, from service to rampant individualism and selfishness, from suppressed emotions and inhibitions to unbridled passion and undisciplined thinking, from success as an idol to failure as the chief glory...
Count Laszlo Szechenyi, the Hungarian Minister, took his wife, who was fashionable Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, to Newport, R. I., and there, amid surroundings thoroughly familiar to her, established his little diplomatic court. A veteran diplomat, he well knows the impossibility of escaping Washington's torridity in Washington...
...Count & Countess Szechenyi enjoy a Washington popularity second only to that of the British Howards. Their summers alternate between Newport where the Countess's mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., resides grandly at "The Breakers," and the Count's estates in Hungary. On his last trip home, the Count had a bad automobile accident, suffered the loss of his left eye. Light-hearted despite this, he still rides and drives his car, plays his "fair" game of golf. In Washington the Szechenyis take their social and diplomatic duties most seriously...
Robert Law, George M. Pynchon Jr. and Elliot S. Phillips have worked up the Westchester Club. Charles Townsend Ludington is busy at Philadelphia; Major Lorillard Spencer, Count Alfonso Villa and William H. Vanderbilt at Newport; George Hann at Pittsburgh; David S. Ingalls at Cleveland; Robert R. McCormick, Joseph Medill Patterson, Philip Wrigley, John J. Mitchell at Chicago; William G. McAdoo Jr., Tod Ford Jr., Aldrich M. Peck at Los Angeles; William G. Parrott, Peter B. Kyne, Julliard McDonald, Thomas B. Eastland, Alexander Young, Edward H. Clark at San Francisco...